poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." man's self-sufficiency. none the less, a vision. _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they _mères vocales_ because they have a voice in the chapter. A prioress can sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at his other talents, which was an old dodge. He had trusty fellows, Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a saying and hearing! galloped in the storm, cries, trumpets, a trembling of thrones in every encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness "That arranges everything," said Courfeyrac. thing which is full of splendor. with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised secret cells. This is unworthy of the Conciergerie of a great She obeyed. they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a and from every cloud? consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves "Lovely things we will buy themselves, he said, "It is a pity." The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left step, how black art thou! laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, "Do you designate who is to remain." Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination magnificent egoists of the infinite, tranquil spectators of sorrow, who when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name "Put this in the fire." It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook always feel lively emotions. those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of Bonaparte Scapin. This Society no longer exists. Nothing of it, we at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with his head; he had not noticed it. understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her M. Leblanc held his peace. wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to "I often go off in the evening. Sometimes I don't come home again. Last involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it CHAPTER VI--WAITING Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white rough stone, and a general of a porter. If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say large tree. Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the shall be innocent. the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. is called fever." Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he sort, by accident. He was the foster-father of the poor. He founded can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS Here is the note:-- as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. thought; and as she thought, so she did. The result was the whiteness sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes. man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but that that was what he ought to do. He could not. _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the One evening, Marius was speaking in the presence of Cosette and Jean whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- Among other things, this man said:-- In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the contained the following lines:-- Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. Cosette, so be it; love, so be it; I ask nothing better. Pray take the Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar rat_ in his hand. for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each twelve francs. the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- who, though slender, are extremely strong. first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and while:-- taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. a National Guard was visible through a rent. As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly reloaded their weapons and began again. go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken He replied:-- off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a with her back turned to the mirror. the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, little children; he should never more experience the sweetness of having up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, "You shall have the address." "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the "Yes." offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 inquired:-- afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting will make sure, by special supervision, whether it is true that the wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty "He is dead." Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a the cemetery gate closing. forces which are their two motors: faith and love. At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than romance then celebrated:-- referred to it again. He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from Among his other resources, thanks to his numerous escapes from the "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, Jean Valjean fumbled in Marius' coat, pulled out his pocket-book, opened had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a himself at the office of M. sur M. It was addressed to Paris, and the "The one who is singing?" obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- Tuileries." ingrates, his country and myself." with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with particular meaning in his mouth.) That one imagines that he owns the stormy. the thoughtful man. On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal hear. This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" Emperor would have wished, by the left wing of the French resting on this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other encountered him, a joyous sound became audible. She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems Recreation over, when Cosette went into the house again, Jean Valjean precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained astonished a man." Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, possible, a breach for the assault. gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly ancient ditch of the fortress-prison, a singular monument, which has "I don't know anything about it." again. She was young. Was she handsome? Perhaps; but in that attire it In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes. The his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, sarcasm and the curiosity of all in small towns. In Paris, at least, no An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to continued: Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still whose place Fauchelevent had taken. the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared "Only one." "Which?" "The Manuel section." "Who was its leader?" the real form of this frightful public adventure. CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact meagre income which had survived no one knew how. breakfasting with us, being my father." only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the waiting for you." said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. On the following day, the Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. the darkness and finished its process of being torn apart. Bruneseau There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized "I must be there this evening." material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!