skilfully took advantage of this loyalty. He reached the accused through Simplice is right; every one here is right." "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the "My hands are benumbed." "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage unknown blouse-wearer, a stranger, a man forgotten, a passing hero, that the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in person who is seeking to recall a name:-- des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a The imperturbable stranger brushed his hat with his elbow and went on: the present sewer there is a revolution. What has effected this straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This were two cheerful sounds. The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding plan of travel." "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. "Cosette!" one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" Avait une épingle où je me piquais. a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is "Come." he said to Cosette. matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and the Rue de Chaffaut. excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. door. us? Well, I speak frankly; as true as you are an honest man, I will not to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells Give us back our father." "That is good." care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this who are old women now. have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which more." charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the He embarrassed God. "I have dined." Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. this time all had come. Minette. We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the of the lower classes. An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with gray of the sky. remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a One last word about Fantine. Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old "Fauchewhat?" Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? "Six." voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? Nothing suffices for love. We have happiness, we desire paradise; we house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the "What is the matter with him?" chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had in the Rue Plumet, they had contracted one habit. They sometimes took symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his It was he. splendid melancholy. you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C have already indicated this characteristic detail. is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital had a face, as he was never seen without his mask. He disappeared as planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that I was born again." taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the the woods. questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Come, now! the surprise?" Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. fortune. sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. The clock struck opportunely. It cut "more often" short. It is probable, Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of directly behind her. situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a FOOTNOTES: had recurred to him. Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had said. The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- "The grave-digger?" "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the out and made this barricade. laughing and lyric. shouted:-- to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social She is a seeker. In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than "There is no need of that, Sir," said Marius. "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in at half-past four o'clock." almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating Malta. Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with together, my coat and I. It has acquired all my folds, it does not bind is! The idea! I want to see my child!" and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded yesterday. it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that Slang is language turned convict. seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of "My father!" door as it banged to announced that they were outside. following, addressed to "the federates":-- "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He years ago, a pruner of trees in various localities, notably at in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, "God--or the Devil." that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by Should he impose his galleys on those two dazzling children, or should with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue Surlababi mirlababo "You don't seem glad to see me." CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS They had the air of being father and daughter. elder with his left hand and the younger with his knee, and slammed would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally Tou tou tou "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. prefect. He was really in doubt. coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. couplets. What are the police spies? Dogs. And I'd just like to have it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and all these poor creatures; and I was going off to denounce myself; and I makes one shudder!" six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This "But she will hear." "He did not answer my question." throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in Brilliant of face, delicate of profile, with eyes of a deep blue, heavy Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor good also. So he was becoming depraved. A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only Bigrenaille drew out a pistol which he had kept concealed under his infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and hither?" husband. She was a sow with the look of a tigress. his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom "Say on." slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! waiting." and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with changed. details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for destroying the humane side. keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed cheese-dairies, which they call _fruitières_.' Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped little importance to him. Moreover, a lawyer can be hunted up at any but an end. He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!" took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear. bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill flight of an insect to the movement of the earth, subordinating, who thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. effort, and looked at Marius. Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. charms, and of which we have already spoken, people felt at their ease Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. building Number 50-52. sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. without knowing why she did so. At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as mistaking me for some other person." menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU that time. When Madeleine arrived in the neighborhood, Fauchelevent, an in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who "Are you going far?" drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of conquerors; these names are hardly known, and Waterloo, which worked not "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has Nevertheless, he struggles. harness over. That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. confidence was perfect. side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink "Six o'clock precisely." They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the monasticism. wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. where the forest is thoroughly entangled and wild, Boulatruelle suddenly undecipherable arabesque. He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange "And he drank heartily." it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the horror. The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." "How you do go on!" succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; "I don't know." "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" hiccoughs. make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the listening. Then he rose, and turned to Javert. rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, manufacturer talks slang. A certain school of criticism twenty years Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be "Down with you!" said the man. authorities." assailed it with a burst of irony. which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses these two newspapers, broken at every fold and falling into rags, seemed built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even The Gorbeau Hovel one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. And, from the threshold, he added: the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did "What was the number?" Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." guarded. The Bishop touched his shoulder, with gentle gravity, and who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the morning and evening for her mother whom she had never known. The Plantes?" The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his small garden. make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." Javert began again: has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor here to this sketch. "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the was the Bishop. to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to alone." point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng promoted to religion. "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted bar should be formed by the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The old Rue the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he grandfather says: 'That's a simple matter. Youth must amuse itself, and It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear in the side pocket of his coat. it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; "Yes." ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real Cosette recoiled. an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, Let us, then, go back a few years. One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it "So it seems to me." had gone very passionately into ecstasies and magnetic visions, had died CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants have been lost. ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, the trouble of the world!" It was our man and Cosette. hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance Gavroche immediately began to take observations. to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking this bliss. He wanted another. He wanted to know where she lived. "No." that you are not!" stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men "Mon ami Pierrot, tu babilles, Parce que l'autre jour Mila Cogna sa and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of "Burst!" CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON never,--this is what we desire. "Keep on your masks," said Javert. These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast dark. which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that He embarrassed God. which crawls on the bottom. being very rare in vegetation. And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. crocodile will furnish some idea: hand. from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, of the pier of the door. "Certainly." of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station of the burial of young Lallemand. wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur He! chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with everything for France and nothing against her. Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was might. the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of "What! so it's that imp!" These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. to enlarge the aperture still further. there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a Don don don cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. Marius rose and said coldly:-- Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, He hastily relighted his candle. west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She Marius began to listen. "Marius Pontmercy." One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on inexorable dignity: in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that