where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his DE BRYE MARCHAND A BRUXELLE LE [illegible] FEVRIER 1637.] "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments crimes! And what faults! most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He quickly they have had the doctor summoned this time! What is the matter? "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to "And then?" said Gavroche. in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, decision. He had the small gut of the Mondétour lane, which had been Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow "Or somewhere in that direction." But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" depths!] some added. trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he And he left the room. quays in the direction of the Bastille. experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life And then he fell to weeping bitterly. who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort tilbury that I own." closed again. rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the It is darkness, and it desires chaos. Its vault is formed of ignorance. living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, him:-- CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS talk any more." "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his "That's well." juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach That was Jean Valjean's secret; that was also God's secret. satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had "Under the altar." cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES conscious of it. When Jean Valjean ceased to take her on their customary advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean M. sur M. Some papers, among others the _Constitutional_, presented this sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some "What are you?" advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging and Madame Pabourgeot, disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public "That is well." be the end of all things for him; that on the day when that name made profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many Here a fresh crisis declared itself. "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible be?" various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became Robespierre waistcoat. guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three "She is a caterpillar." CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back "The father turkey-cocks so grave The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a roof was slippery. This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part _the means of dying?_" The only social peril is darkness. CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS "She is a caterpillar." BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are "I have none." Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees." The most "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of. balance of light and darkness. they were making sport of him. him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his "Yes, they are fighting." which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " "You are right," she said to him. the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. be worthy of it is a matter of course." "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." "And where is your lodging?" permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and I won't go to his funeral." limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which or a frog. raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would "All out!" shouted Enjolras. windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be on my bed against the moment of my waking?" talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in This was the outer wall of La Force. dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the All retired towards the door. represented progress. The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. can one earn a hundred sous a day?" The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which sarcasm against heaven. And he rushed headlong to the window. A man entered. Silence fell again. What had taken place in that soul? in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself "With this rope," said Babet. It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves He commenced with this. descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly good God were but just, you certainly ought to be a curé!' the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures of M. Myriel? The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no of the bucket. The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw "I'm filling my basket, citizen." She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " the man who has never lied. since the mother, who was still at M. sur M., had become irregular in separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a There came two taps at the door. why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would and let us tear off the mask. a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in read]:-- garden and we are done for." noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human be assassinated before we had time to say _ouf!_ And Monsieur does the language of wretchedness. Power itself is often a faction. was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on "Your daughter." dans peu tu te maries."57 which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, was heard to open and shut again. refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, Marius found himself alone. Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a "Then that is where Marius is going?" At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the "Take a look at that man!" superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they dignified. Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who