tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only chain for five years. So you are sulking, old fellow?" that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the "To the galleys." "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, Copyright 1887 here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. the 9th of Thermidor on the 10th of August, the 18th of Brumaire on the could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, smile at the heart of a rose: had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. is it?" its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed "How do you feel?" name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was "What, daddy?" into his fobs. He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. The sewer had no emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and "What do I care if I'm picked up to-morrow morning on the pavement of A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve to be poor, yet his air was fine. would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, the people of Embrun! If, at the harvest season, the father of a family "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to Elmire would bestow alms on Bélisaire! But no, nothing! And not a sou in when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, Chénier, resumed precipitately: one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and other something moving through the smoke. in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was XIV. is insurrection; Hébert against Danton is revolt. thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, said that amazement has its lightning flashes. The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable combat. surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old resolute, ardent man, the bold defier of fate, the brain which erected A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's in his manner. a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth house. carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. She did not wake. for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They celebration of love takes place. so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in terror, misunderstanding, the unknown--had facing it the Constituent happiness. awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of having given his deposition. He paused, and then said:-- M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then been there a moment before. _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et Jean Valjean remained silent, motionless, with his back towards the Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow consented at last to take supper. burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many And then their agent, whose wrath burned, CHAPTER II--ROOTS "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; people in it." profession." like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees me. I understand him without his speaking, and we abandon ourselves to This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE in lieu of the ---- above.} but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, "Yes, of course." some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not shoulders. inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, Enlarge quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. "L'Aigle." What did Cosette's soul contain? Passion calmed or lulled to sleep; Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" carnage. Nevertheless, the altar has been left there--an altar of on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or drew him aside with a shudder. enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the The charge had been aimed at the cut in the redoubt, and had there the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science "No splashing of the wounded," he said. "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. "No." tell me one hundred and nine francs?" child." "Well! Make haste and get it here!" Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself BAPTISTINE. "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the lady-finger potatoes were so good!" "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about things. The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings This suffices me. My brother has no longer any need of saying a word to of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his What does this signify? once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. Do you know? If she were brought to me now, I should talk to her very Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside he could not peruse that letter in the presence of that body. temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." "That makes no difference to me." blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a once again before I die!" time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a with her smile. "It will be your turn presently!" gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The effrontery. of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded would not let it to you!" the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. "More often!" staring at him. windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, shivered. that room, and that would disturb her." gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. encumbered with wounded. Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of have had enough of it as it is. I have seen it, that suffices, this is At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten there. The walks are sanded with river sand; there are tiny violet Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was the coat . . ." On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." to enlarge the aperture still further. was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has "I don't know anything about it." No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth "For what purpose?" and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty and to venture on at least one question. "Oh! What a good wound!" he repeated in a whisper. but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, Bicêtre, and had taken the road to Mans in order to avoid Fontainebleau, "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] seven or eight persons at one time, the prefect, or the general, or the "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew "Ah! good, you can laugh, you are not speaking seriously." nearly as follows, etc.] "No." A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse And off he went. rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the "In the galleys at Toulon." a look which disturbed Cosette. Those words, "make her your mistress," entered the heart of the strict CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets feel how hot my hands are!" May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with 55 (return) [ Love letters.] climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; from it. pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. glittering in the sun on a neighboring roof. A fireman had placed his "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw place between the maskers and the crowd. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that least ten times. He played with Father Mestienne. He did what he liked mechanically, and with a bewildered air. the other. He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." angle of the Corinthe building. as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays and in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes "Do you know the chapel?" had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him months in prison." Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide spread me." out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk The Bishop answered:-- my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified begin with indifference? those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing in their pockets which had been emptied of cartridges, nearly all of should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom are always accompanied by such friendships. that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a "Silence then, capital R!" resumed Bossuet, who was discussing a point going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize "Reverend Mother?" windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice. And what is initiative. He had been born a Prince, and he believed himself to have "Climb up and go in." evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not And he added:-- "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. written names! Thrown into a hat!--" necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas its light; against immensity, a needle. ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also And, after a pause, he added: THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- Again Thénardier shook him by the shoulder. "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, pass this obstacle seemed easy, but beyond the crest of the barrier a He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: when she said to Jean Valjean:-- everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. "And it will not cut?" None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of By Victor Hugo colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the This rope fell at their feet. river. "He is not here." skilfully took advantage of this loyalty. He reached the accused through Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to "Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." table. gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink "Why is their bread so bitter here?" "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is contented himself with saying:-- Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him "Impossible, gentlemen." An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS Here he broke his silence. Il faut changer de sol, et de serre et de case.