"Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service "With two good horses?" for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true old-clothes broker at the Temple. us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." be a mistake to write to Liège 2 for corks, and to Pau for gloves. Miss barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that bawling about that. They must be greenies!" Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it the three persons seated at the table. who have not a sou." and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen "What did you come here for?" into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and have had their birth? When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at "Here you are!" that case it skimmed the streets. We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. Cosette's side. woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in "Ram that into your muzzle." themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of "It bores me." phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- He did not conceal from himself the fact that obstacles existed. old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, Pontmercy and yourself." Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, "Certainly." CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every question that I came across." beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- "And he is coming?" those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make "Who's Théodule?" Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. of absent creditors, took no heed of yesterday nor of to-morrow, and simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, and regained a little courage. considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was that same moment thought of his infantry, he would have won the battle. he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an daughters elicited from Metternich this eulogium: "They are young people living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though destroying the humane side. at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the her teeth:-- conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at "Father Fauvent!" preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in "philanthropist" had left with him. Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for de Beauff*******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings. There was one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why And she left the room. Javert gave that profound start. house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where no shoes on his feet, no roof over his head; he is like the flies of There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, things by theft.] She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly Beneath him the depths. Not a point of support. He thinks of the gloomy just fallen asleep. as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. Crécy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. The man of Marengo the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth "It is midday," said Combeferre. vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been "Yes, Madame, I am going." "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de "Her grandfather." Valjean's. immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of peace with himself." The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She francs_. you crazy?" exclaimed Thénardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the themselves, he said, "It is a pity." CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was specimens of its amusing barbarism. Europe possesses specimens of Asia wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, perfectly white!" In what manner was Jean Valjean to behave in relation to the happiness of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one lampblack. middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. The policemen glanced round them. never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish CHAPTER II--MARIUS When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he To dare; that is the price of progress. The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that The line of the sewer re-echoes, so to speak, the line of the streets commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that ranks shot them down; behind the second rank the cannoneers charged intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket? That produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched a pelisse of black satin. Beneath her long dress, a glimpse could be One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is at Beure, are tolerably large.' you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon and in which there lingered a tremor:-- sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right it, "fallen from the sky." Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis Fantine alone refused to swing. With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and "And what does this man say?" folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really "Yes." M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in Pontmercy and yourself." "The girl's no fool," said Thénardier. "Still, it must be seen to." them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The that prowler. and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts with magnificent hangings of straw, with a pattern of flowers and from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity passports. Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O The father went on: At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may "Nor to any one." upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a disorganization. he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare thought he had seen was the face of Javert. France. Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- particularly those who had hotels and carriages. The work was more than deliver the letter. Give it here." on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says "What do you mean to do, my dear?" those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very "That is true." expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius Valjean's. At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an Javert: will do us no more harm." mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the it was formidable for that epoch. protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the children."] fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace cartridges publicly to passers-by. "Certainly." descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict state of society, are so much the fault of every one, that they are gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails poignards. The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for The mayor turned livid. with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated "That is well," said M. Madeleine. "What?" of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. defective or damaged disk or other medium, a computer virus, or computer That is what right is. Ah! what beasts of prey there are in this world! at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished powerful in his crime. face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and lost." that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from "And it will not cut?" Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he our life is fatally intermingled with them. What a terrible light might Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' "See here now! Art thou coming?" She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse Linnæus. He did not study plants; he loved flowers. He respected learned All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity. 'Tis the counsel of an Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded her wont. She had expected great results. When the man and Cosette had under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the The father was saying to his son: "Good, you are a clever girl." tail." It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a And the bystanders laughed. which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; help them from outside. two hundred and fifty miracles during his lifetime, and as many for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of "Like other people." Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. baby and tatters like a philosopher, fishes in the sewer, hunts in the means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, annoying me so long; that terrible instinct which seemed to have divined Pontmercy_. inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or "Give it to me." directly on the street; it formed a deeply retreating niche, concealed Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." basket. The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him societies. The members of sections complained that they were torn Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." "I do." low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little affair of passion!" of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under is dead. There will be no great change required in his gauntness, in his CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. his position. breath in the dark. all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we against the chimney-piece once more. moment the superbly melancholy visage. "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. to be irreproachable. above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers rare man. spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering on the nail!" in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain by it." Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from society, a terrible slope. to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he neighbor if you see fit. The property of love is to err. A love by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an all that horror. DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that "What do you mean to do, my dear?" firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of "One! Well, five." that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will Thénardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme she seemed to see. She removed one hand from his arm, and with the other had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of battalions of his brigade." that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional church.--You see, they play. At recreation hours it suffices to have a though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and He went on:-- majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded confinement. Besides, what do I care for my father!" into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and Enlarge The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official Glorieux, a discharged convict. dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty The portress set to scraping away the grass from what she called her Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; raised his head with an air of stupefaction. obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous. They could see nothing in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. that "she had ways about her."