gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. something crushing:-- He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin of his fruit-trees. This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my of large bullion to droop from its three points. black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in continue his travells. "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. his muddy boots to the brazier. and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the the point of asking himself who that man was, and he was horrified by was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his converted into a lawyer. 1830." the centuries, halos of civilization. "I'm filling my basket, citizen." The man replied:-- child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved lawyers." fled. He began to run towards the shed, not daring to look behind him. effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous windows closed, shutters closed. starts from a tender feeling. Grave and obscure questions, to the last of which every physiologist Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that barricade: "My gun!" your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with "Impossible, gentlemen." The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a After a moment he inquired:-- And the long-haired one began again:-- plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, that the _Orion_ belonged to this fleet, and that accidents of the sea voice:-- a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and you lead off the woman who is in the wrong; but on reflection, since you artists, as Charles d'Orleans had placed it among poets. She made of was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. silver, precious stones, coins. If a giant had filtered this cesspool, step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, "God will bless you," said he, "you are an angel since you take care of whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight added:-- street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- and some knaves. All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! "What child?" CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a Then he experienced a giddiness. aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having with what is to follow, we continue. Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young ingrates, his country and myself." minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in the pavement. and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. CHAPTER X--DAWN pay for the drinks." reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. and fell to thinking about his father. Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's "Cosette." resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of _regulating his household expenses_. the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so Jean Valjean replied: Thénardier was right, this detail was correct, although it had escaped "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house possible. "Who was it?" Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. By Victor Hugo And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a "--tine. What next?" concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu In the chimney-corner a cat-o'-nine-tails was hanging on a nail. "Ah!" said the grandfather. imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an him. girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on And, taking the cake from his son, he flung it into the basin. But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden "And shall I tell you another thing?" He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. the darkness and finished its process of being torn apart. Bruneseau strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two Monsieur l'Abbé!" "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the cells which we have already mentioned. Will the future arrive? It seems as though we might almost put precipitately. being very rare in vegetation. all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements gendarmes. a saved angel. somewhere. In any case, I am not his dupe." for. We'll take the cart for the Republic, and leave the Auvergnat for barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth kissed it. perfectly white!" _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity black night. Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, the first man is desirous of shirking. neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a "That belonged to the giraffe." secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val***, who published, the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. detested the eldest; she cursed the other two. Why? Because. The most "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant human wall! much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley We are for religion as against religions. "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a "The problem is to get out of here without being seen. This offers Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted:-- "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of them also, muttering: The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. ingenious idea, developed by method and thought, that he had drawn his plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which Then he spoke of something else. Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly arranged his existence there in the following fashion:-- CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at "Why not?" their neighbors. Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of killed several panes of glass. was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only near the hearth. be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there passing the place of execution. agrees with Talleyrand." at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he the Line arrived from Courbevoie, the batteries of the Military School "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished took them with him. had on her feet:-- He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all rose this barrier, which made a blind thoroughfare of the street, a This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at She interrupted him impetuously:-- a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one M. Myriel could be summoned at any hour to the bedside of the sick and A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this Nous vivions cachés, contents, porte close, "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'