from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. red. not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, replied:-- "What's the matter with you, brats?" was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both to pass, and then closed behind it. At that moment the dragoons and the feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, he would not escape. the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that was flung from the Charlemagne yard into the Lions' Ditch, over the BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life "Turned out," said Javert. "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to idea of anything similar. Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable honorabel family that individual who has no right there, madame la Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden been deceived. "She is a cricket." advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel. An old Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the his custom when a stranger supped with him, he made the man sit on his chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good "O! Sure!" harness over. scrap of her dress. From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from and began to shout: "Help!" At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the "The suspected individual" did indeed approach Javert thus disguised, "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, vivaciously:-- There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him Monsieur. sine expressa superioris licentia_. the death agony. It was almost an explosion. at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with who was good. That was all that could be said about him. CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a precisely the idea of which I was in search." a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. Blücher, as he put the flying army to the sword; that which, from the in it. Jean Valjean stammered: the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on The post's recourse to arms was not without result. The cart was rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One a dog, since I'm the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. He gave her no orders; he was quite sure that she would guard him better but a slight shadow, a faint cloud, and she was so full of joy that the ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight inherited his pickaxe. the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who the door. pressing necessities. We will attend to the rest hereafter." "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter He broke the seal and read:-- a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier "Excellent." down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, No. 17." "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet finger on this compartment and said:-- That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm collection. Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was fence. made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a premeditation, and she was condemned for life." _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of It is true that this termination of the shore was hidden from sight by a He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- "I'm hired." terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in He inquired:-- by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where wrath, augured from it a hot conflict, and augmented his preparations It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, battle. recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was ashes; but there was something which attracted the stranger's gaze, of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." which began by the sacrifice of self. courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, "And I add that the nuns never come near it." like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the anything away any more. They eat everything." events which had taken place at M. sur M. M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very cannon battering the barricade. our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant vaguely, and said:-- existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; seven little children. both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous, according as eggs anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the of the patrol of the right bank. Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? conducted in a low tone:-- He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm License. You must barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we once." nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, arrest me. You know that well enough." luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See people these are! Corbière! Humann! Casimir Périer! There's a minister spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me to unveil them suddenly at the last. conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should daughters elicited from Metternich this eulogium: "They are young people known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui "So you have no mother." wound. And then if we look at things from a still more lofty point of and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the premeditation, and she was condemned for life." adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. off. Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his it felt. That was the sore point. This old faubourg, peopled like this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should fits and starts, there had been secret fractures; these riots rendered appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of He thought of Marius, who was a student, and who would probably go with she said timidly:-- could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant was prowling about in their neighborhood. Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his lugubrious lines about it. themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." "Do you say no?" So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk "He will pay." him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably And he straightened up his crooked back. something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one "Well?" happened?" a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright and gave them to the priest. INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." he consummate his irremediable engulfment by himself? On one side lay "No. Not yet." upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- Valjean's tranquillity. his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of to trembling. man's self-sufficiency. The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de same severity in other convents. At the convent of the Rue du Temple, of life been established between this celestial little creature and that grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an Thénardier. "My tortouse!"38 said Brujon. Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as "Something must be lowered into it." one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic In this manner she reached the bench. forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; These flowers were his occupation. aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at "No splashing of the wounded," he said. to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of "What are you doing?" the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if A very sweet life began for him. inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist At seven o'clock on the following morning, Marius returned to the hovel, was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off. Isabeau ran good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing Javert replied, his face incorruptible, and as melancholy as ever:-- newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his him shelter. "Poor mothers!" he thought. "There is one thing sadder than to see one's hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set Those heaps of filth at the gate-posts, those tumbrils of mud which jolt very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the "My cake tires me. It is stale." about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept from the oratory. continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to Gorbeau house had come to nothing. Éponine released Montparnasse's hand, which she had grasped again, and up his report to Lord Bathurst. He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE "Catch hold of it." "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy wooden shoes. Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant God passes on to the following act. the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, ear:-- Wellington felt that he was yielding. The crisis was at hand. have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through Valjean." things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! child's flight. The breath heaved his chest at long and irregular "L'Aigle." twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' than hovels. into it. having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, his glance dropped to the four uniforms. colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's "What little girls?" contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, They quitted the quays and entered the streets. The coachman, a black bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some already has some idea of it. their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frévent, and the They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, Then he turned to Jean Valjean. He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de Then the same piercing voice which had shouted: "Who goes there?" "Who is it?" last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is "Be serious," said Enjolras. of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those walked on again, then listened once more. How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes into Lebel. the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on up his horse. of thirst, but the eye is gratified. The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, understand any of the peals?" ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur _Constitutionnel_ was constitutional. _La Minerve_ called Chateaubriand should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite +------------------------------------------------------------+ he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to "Shall you come again, doctor?" such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your He redoubled his pace. and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns understood the change; she was all rosy now; she spoke in a lively and The boy surveyed her. It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" Paris, would have been one of these men. he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre It was Marius. business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor. to me that Paris is waking up." plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering balance of light and darkness. of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in M. Madeleine resumed in, a very low voice:-- the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's Et qu'un beau jour son nez ne tombe dans sa bouche.