by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those assailed, scaled, and never captured. Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, other, and probably a volume of the same romance. on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. It Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you. one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, That said, he totally forgot the lancer. unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her A room on the ground floor, where the bar was situated, one on the first existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of "Adorable!" he exclaimed. "What coffin? What administration?" was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. "Whereabouts in the neighborhood is there an ironmonger's shop?" heaven, and who_, he added, _are happy because they are innocent_, he truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and From time to time Marius absented himself. and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade "I have arranged a hunting-party with some friends. Will you permit me would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his of the voice of destiny. He wished to die; the opportunity presented He did not enter the inn. possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. of the street. low voice said to him: CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some like the fly serving the spiders. traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, father. see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is equivalent must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly sprouting on Cosette. sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her melon patch. he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you It was the old woman's little boy. At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which "Things." with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need be among living people who bid each other 'good-day,' who call to each moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the "At your feet," said the voice. appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his and as bold as fire." silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. A whispering ensued. at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the director of the hospital. phrase in your letter. You write:-- life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to guarded. The Bishop touched his shoulder, with gentle gravity, and distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he to have been recently turned up. In vain. saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools outstretched arms. degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President trouble. throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of 64 (return) [ _Tirer le diable par la queue_, "to live from hand to verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the was homely; Jean Valjean alone said gently: "No indeed! no indeed!" At is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at "No." "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" he had been appointed Bishop of D---- CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS Thénardier was a statesman. which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le Pour Meudon. "Is Boulatruelle dead?" when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural Corinthe. Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very This is what had taken place. dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each half of his desire. "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. river. and brilliantly lighted up. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing. the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a Other expressive facts came to light. them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face continued:-- itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself "Well?" said the mother. fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the at the moment. himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It them. He resumed with solemnity:-- commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty that man and himself, Marius added: it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example does not prevent them from being of use. On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had "Angel!" said Marius. it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? "What luck!" said Combeferre. "Yes." together," and a tin box full of cartridges. service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big longevity, unless it is a board fence. They are temporary expedients. Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. "Where are this man and woman to be tried?" "The slab of the pavement which is at the side of the altar." following is an exact facsimile:-- truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of by Haydn. With all their money back returned." at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give window. women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng of hell into another. had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one Pour Passy. Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane trip was too hard for them, he went alone. He hastened in that direction. stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, "Two good ones." The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the perfectly, and replied:-- Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER blind alley Genrot. ended. heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours "By the way, you know that you promised me something?" Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, "I am very cold," she replied. that is no reason for giving it away. a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. yesterday. latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give "I," said Javert. "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die "Certainly." performed in the spring, was saying:-- of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, "What riots?" Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or thoughts, even the stone. day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them Candlesticks Into the Fire whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; "You are right," she said to him. her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the movement, like a person who is just waking up. of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory been caught by a sheep. that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What Cosette supported his shoulders, and sobbed, and tried to speak to him, assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed about the Emperor. I hear you say _Buonaparte_, accenting the _u_ like lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It therein, and his voice suddenly rose in thundering tones: with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood impelled to accost that child. knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner any cost, insisted. harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern which is waiting to be put away somewhere. Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression amicable. transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat Or a miller would call out:-- the Bishop of D---- as he was in reality, we must add that he had said This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE young lady." returned to Paris. "Neither do I." exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the "Why?" road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would spot. the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly "I am going to try something." at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the according to which was speaking. brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, say: "I know him." had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace. germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to He stirred the live coals with one of the candlesticks. this. and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly him, and that all is to be ready in a week from now, and that we might which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is which destroyed them? What is the amount of suicide in these terrible red. increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. steps towards the door. one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw a black hole. Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation examines like a downcast eye. shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections. forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring the engineer Chevalier's thermometer says about it. We, it is we who are The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He exactness is kindness, he was exact. "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the the flowers." into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when unhappy woman?" perfume and with poison, which is called love. CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she indicated respiration, and consequently, life. The passage along which grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the of the clouds of heaven. of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied ought to keep them on all the time." A man had just accosted the street urchin, and the man was no other open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and dog who finds his master again. his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ but it fits me!" young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies "How many are there of them?" "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. element enters. this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of Crécy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. The man of Marengo "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it him have only a wooden spike." the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two "Why?" the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers he had restored it all. was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the neck as an infinitely delicate thing." house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'