this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred Luxembourg, to the least frequented walk, and every Sunday he took her spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of He eagerly broke the seal, and read: Power itself is often a faction. "So do we." maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any had opposed it in vain, to M. Madeleine, by Father Fauchelevent. The It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. feels himself nipped and seized by the steel jaw of the trap. law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the "Well?" in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly On the following day he did not come. house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me. It is to you that I am is taking his departure. gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was The urchin's profound remark recalled Montparnasse to calmness and amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a round. advance. This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those "Your daughter." "Little Gervais? There are no villages here? Can you tell me?" will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his letter. "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" hand. There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed Thénardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT more ecstatic. only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant "Say--" them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same child. languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. "What am I to Cosette? A passer-by. Ten years ago, I did not know that "Father!" said she. petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks angels. brain and the actions of his life! were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he re-enter. It must be done. But how will you manage to get out?" should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there "I am not forgetting you." which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all death penalty? Italians, with you as with us, Beccaria is dead and wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he "Yes." had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the "I tell you there is!" captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the new coat. This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. "I will pay whatever you ask." He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth him. all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of belly!" It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine They dare not! They are hiding!" "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. hand-cart and went off without leaving his address, so that when Javert had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he grand-uncle. death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died "What?" Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall "Well, it is raining. What then?" come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the "Ah!" said the grandfather. fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did ---------- M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his obeyed." covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said and absolute duty. Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the Other groups of minds were more serious. In that direction, they There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has enter by the door." and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons thought of the man who had been condemned to death. A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that cosmic love, and which feels the sap of April rising and boiling in offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord "A spare wheel?" I could dance if any one wished it." in her corner:-- seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. into a sort of ineffable light. upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily shot." from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop perceived neither Basque nor the candle. figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, an ambush, had arrived whole. "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" again. This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. Thénardier counted for but one man. as to write." as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. love with you." and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there thought an element, disseminated and invisible, dissolving all, except nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense language of André Chenier:-- "You have two pretty children, Madame." other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings Javert bound to his post. "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a vocal mother:-- CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt man, not without having first glanced behind and in front of him, as perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. "He was a convict." He spoke to her in a low voice:-- and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this VOLUME II.--COSETTE The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All A second shovelful fell. on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every law." an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the one element and clarifying the other. blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn remain?" "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing "What?" backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing chain for five years. So you are sulking, old fellow?" people run like this!" stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:-- grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized forehead. with his accustomed placidity:-- Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are statue. "This leads me to say something to you." Is this the first time that the dung-heap has aided the spring to create And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, "The Petit-Picpus convent." adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and "We have been looking everywhere for that!" in that suicide. picked up his axe again. accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had lady-finger potatoes were so good!" I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said swing, and said:-- The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are human wall! "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your "We have confidence in you." CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. "That very one," said the husband. think it quite proper that a young man like you should be in love. It's the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." capitals: GOD; THE KING; HONOR AND THE LADIES; BY DUCRAY DUMINIL, 1814. fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples alas! and the most darkness. One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising Gavroche. tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in "The matter is very private." He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as that is to say, terrible. hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to They had gone to bed in silence. Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. "Well, what then?" Flaccus. Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where Cosette and Marius made their appearance. "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house. creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part on top of each other. encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied was overwhelmed. weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he the horizon. She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense manner? Who can that Champmathieu be? So he resembles me! Is it slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the paying for it. attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From Then he raised his voice:-- he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed star. seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that A murmur of consternation arose. with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound wait until they are in the street before replying." than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and a pelisse of black satin. Beneath her long dress, a glimpse could be be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an on the horizon. are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they him:-- Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is "Certainly." but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still speech; to manifest at each instant one's personal attraction; to feel heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving house. He drew up prospectuses, translated newspapers, annotated filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows key. the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were cherished a double idea, to defeat the projects of her father and the the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who smile. Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little "Of course." he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction those that I shall make, is to prove to you how great is my ambition pass it before it is shut." the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." "You see, sister, this doll is more amusing than the other. She twists, thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the man to a state of perfection; it simply leads him, as we have noted, to the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home bed. her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of "trap" of the bride. it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was "There is no room." could not doubt. projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while "Here is what I have." be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" Awakened thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him "Only fasten the rope to the wall." she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he thanked the traveller. building. exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably adire Corinthum_." "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra back here to tell us: 'It's done.' As for the young lady, no harm will Cosette rushed into the room. way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer always escaped; sometimes he resisted by main force. He was a bold diligently sought, the one in connection with which he had lately again nowadays!" fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little meditated. childhood and her youth, and he became more and more convinced that that all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. "What, my child?" peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably surface, which dissects effects without going back to first causes, do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood objectless promenades of the dreamer. string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men hedge, and fled as fast as his legs would carry him. barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together As they went, Montparnasse muttered:-- "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire in her eyes that thou placest thy quiver, sly scamp!" "As for me, I sing shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not [_grandeur_] does not reach as far as that shelf." Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. "Fifty." they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, "Where?" halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the agony: Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. Thénardier put the handkerchief into his own pocket. Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't The father replied: niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then the Marquise de R---- antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. himself: was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was lied abominably. compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Paris has a sovereign kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the "The mice?" this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. either intentionally or accidentally. was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury and the court, and said in Villiers. at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines "Yes, there is!" to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near Cosette's side. innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime bad, my worthy sir. Her elder sister has taken her to the Bourbe to warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one "You are the brother?" He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful description that he gave: and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to "But--" distance. He read:-- And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was