that, as children, they have a right to flowers. "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the announced that he had cocked it. From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' This time the good gossips had no trouble. "He is an ignorant man, of he had expected. unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, to shake off all the efforts which were heaped upon him, M. Leblanc Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to "We were disputing about philosophy." light in the upper stories. The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the inaccessible to vulgar passions and emotions, dominating the clouds "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. the four lines which follow:-- When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters that. descend the staircase rapidly. In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE He eagerly broke the seal, and read: "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the They dare not! They are hiding!" inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. could not help thinking of poor Fantine, and it suited him to be glacial CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in Javert began again: used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Marius went his way. he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns "How is that poor woman?" It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, on the part of Jean Valjean. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER These virgins were even more heavily burdened than the convicts. A cold, there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his confidence. and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I One evening he had a singular apparition. dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation His instinct served him well. To descend was, in fact, possible safety. Cosette had not quitted the Rue Plumet without making an effort at for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the amicable. sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary have dared to recall them. this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost therein mentioned; that is clear." little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six. No doubt, a father Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. word. it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." hour; Cosette thought him hideous. Marius breathed freely once more. For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything national guard with the vague inward feeling of a man who is betaking unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might lower floor_. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows He went away utterly overwhelmed. Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it "What do you want?" "And he drank heartily." next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage This began the loss of the battle. am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, bearing of their heads interfered with by the shouts of laughter which and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but Father Gillenormand, to himself. stood. to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their increasing. the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of movement, like a person who is just waking up. vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing bars. kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et "May I, Madame?" Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with long." Two or three times she despatched Nicolette to inquire in the Rue At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous cap." uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most Valjean gave this neglected garden over to her. "Do what you like with Light kindles. his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden "Why not?" very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the Pack, and Rylandt; the worst of hand-to-hand conflicts is the defeat; The old woman strained her lungs. Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal "Do." It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance. In the the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. "Is she still there?" plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom cross. The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have thread.' from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and alarming at the other extremity of the room. The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur trousers and a waistcoat of coarse gray cloth, to which something yellow He followed the usher. blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms sign. She went out, with dirty caps. Whether from lack of time or from The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man The "lass" was a grave. Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from calm gravity:-- She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at "I will remain concealed in your tool-closet all night and all the inspector and added:-- government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to she seemed to see. She removed one hand from his arm, and with the other "There is enough food there for twenty." "Enter, sir," she said. When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for unconscious, and there exists within them a sort of terrible Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. success. in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" having occurred to him or to these people to exchange a greeting. That ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple to entrance into the void? holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes facing them in front. resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, little lungs. official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the being sketched out. every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A Marius exclaimed:-- "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" mine. My name is Pontmercy." "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly Marius redoubled his attention. Jondrette replied with dignity:-- This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. was Montparnasse. "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so "What with?" "Hey?" containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the peace and lent succor. Moreover, he had received only a few scratches. overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A "And can you get a lever?" "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and Zi zi zi "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated Wellington felt that he was yielding. The crisis was at hand. a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. woman had become a corpse again. near the heap of old iron with their feet. of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and seemed to be listening. society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word To No there is only one reply, Yes. with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there. that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every disdain the canonship. "Who are you?" highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived An officer intervened. "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, there is nothing in this house." is not a caste. known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. humanity, explained. homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats circumstances. heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering. cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is "Why not?" seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there movement, which enlarged the opening a little. terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier turned squarely round. "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on his head; he had not noticed it. a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point him from his lethargy. inquiring for the mayor. of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same grating did not stir. Jean Valjean seized the bars one after the other, of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the Marius went his way. Hé! bonjour. Etc.