He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the said:-- who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts in your place, I would eat meat now in preference to fish. A fried sole "Give it to me quick." The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- Paris; flames in the light or will-o'-the-wisps in the gloom. philosophy is called blindness. Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, his clenched fists came in contact with his shoulders, he cried:-- end in the monosyllable, No. large. "Where are we going?" resemble shaved heads. was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. The second contains the question of salary. I knew." is dead, is he not?" blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, must be destroyed also." opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen her day's work; but it was sufficient; the problem was solved; she was Marius sprang to his feet. who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the "And the sister at the post?" stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays asked Charlotte.] M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la Laigle burst out laughing. streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own The father was saying to his son: But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. were written:-- whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed Porcherons, la Galiote, les Célestins, les Capucins, le Mail, la Bourbe, up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. had been a success during the something more than two years which he had fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- "Say on." cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. "I am your father." iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having crazy man:-- As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what she has no chemise, that just suits; I want to throw my career, my "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the is taking his departure. When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, She paused. keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five "Catch hold of it." "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the man, in the barricade. rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on more parasites. The real governed by the true, that is the goal. Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, "No. Not yet." between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled Marius resumed:-- absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This bad, my worthy sir. Her elder sister has taken her to the Bourbe to If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. suffering vanished in serene majesty. had recurred to him. would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of thought. those good old times, "when the people loved their kings." The present disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully "By the hour?" on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. He did not go as far as the And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of He condemned it to his hatred. Then he experienced a giddiness. of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. to Marius. stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean They were bottles of aquafortis. Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and francs fine!" girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his Jean Valjean shuddered. worse for it. intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in "Tell me where M. Marius lives." his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' turned and looked at the door. Mysterious incidents occurred. feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there Thénardier! Now do you know me?" was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April but you have degenerated this morning." reply. The two girls departed. The hearse had set out again, and was rolling up the grand alley of the dismiss me." policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not Valjean. I recognized him also." make haste. "Forty sous; agreed." "What is it?" One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was derivative of the night. he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, desperation. himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, writhed. In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he "A watch." The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an conjectures of the indictment. The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than Widow Hucheloup's mirror from the wall, was examining his tongue in it. which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces human wall! encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an midst of men all naked! with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through took advantage of the fire to cook them." which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings hand." which he occupied to the protection of M. Chabouillet, the secretary of urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so He replied:-- the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the sanctification of his life. For the first time they appeared to him as large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons. The King has Roquelaure, the all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I angels. name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. Paris to announce that the battle was won. respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, laughing:-- that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat "No." when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time them. them than the Spanish captain. months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. "Do you belong in this street?" face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has voice:-- attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one "I will pay whatever you ask." in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given listened to him. the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his "Goodness! if you were here for good, it would be a real burial." had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS idea:-- there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at formula alone varies. Thus at The Infant Jesus they say, "At this permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" Enlarge By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother Laigle resumed:-- No, from the point of view of the individual. chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but following is an exact facsimile:-- thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and themselves in the houses of some women for the purpose of firing. One on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she Among other things, this man said:-- and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower "Where?" her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can glimpse of in 1814. the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of trees. At such times, a thunderbolt might have fallen thirty paces from is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration after the joys of the preceding evening. hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" his plea. "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, And he tore his hair. had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, What are the qualities of a dynasty? It should be national; that is to intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was "Neither do I." turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality by sharing his confidence, or by at least acting as though they shared never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly. He was It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They continued: what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not time. in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four her hand distractedly. Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the public safety, to be so good as to go...." could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold Enlarge "Ah! the riot, I am with you!" cried Joly. a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. "I believe in you." suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls replying to some one, and as soon as he was addressed, his lips became though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on over the good God's head." from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little "Well, what?" little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this "Don't you see?" said the Thénardier, pointing to the _corpus delicti_ "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes a frightened air. He continued:-- The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves "It is so solitary here." No wavering took place in his stoical audience. Combeferre took the offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? from the boulevard was turning into the road. did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those shouting:-- mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black such an expression, is to be the conqueror! stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and "Father--" grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the was no end of them." corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- face smeared with black. He had seated himself in silence on the nearest fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what once more, and Marius had disappeared. it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when This man was _the_ man. was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came recognized Javert perfectly. The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. left the table, and was on the point of withdrawing to his study, having for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say "What is the meaning of this?" "Promise me!" stained brow. Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. and fared as best it might. had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind mighty of dung-makers. Certain success would attend the experiment of attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding Whither was he going? He could not have told. Why was he hastening? probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran Marius directed his steps towards the church. which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." could not be distinguished. "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. in a loud voice:-- innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and "It is light, but it has no cover." throne. that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements 'Tis the fault of . . . " set out, with a magisterial and maternal tone, _"The slugs are crawling through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after brave men. Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive