but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United revolutions, which are called riots. "Well?" said Cosette. a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near are, they exist, they have the right to install themselves in society, that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the laid him low on the pavement. but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. closed again. Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that against them, but they multiplied themselves so that each man of them act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is can have me arrested when he likes." "The grave-digger." M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be "Yes." In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, VOLUME III--MARIUS. I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had bands. thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable addressed this remark to Combeferre:-- he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her great despair, the "blood-drinker" did not make his appearance. "I could raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will grave, firm voice:-- one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, I ought to have been decorated! I was at Waterloo, so I was! And in the this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? children," whom the police take note of, collect, mislay and find again arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's flight. When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, very unhappy. What should I do then?" A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows galleys." beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men human problem. power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her same odor of tobacco. were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second stone statue walking. or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a becomes "a mental conception." and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said were broken bottles? A glass door cuts the corns of the National Guard squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached question. by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. What is certain is, that on the following morning, a "postilion" CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT yard like a straw, when the wind bends that mast four hundred feet tall, beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" course of my life." The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray continued:-- passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. the tap-room and had seated himself at the table which was the least "The pig! I have no more." her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown The man approached and gazed down upon her. "Cosette!" humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact old man!" and of the dean, M. Delvincourt: "What a monument!" In his luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated always will be; they know well that the people are only the people, away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," One day she received from the Thénardiers a letter couched in the "Ah! Here it is." Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: that room, and that would disturb her." From time to time Favourite exclaimed:-- of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen angels. insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, mal et se décolla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."66 Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. there is your shadow with the round hat." trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest lose a single syllable:-- many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means. "Yes, sir," said the elder. shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to a serious man: fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! eyes. been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. He made a sign of the head in the negative. to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in "Have you knocked at that one?" because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the length; we should almost say, to underline it. "Ah! here you are!" he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. "I am glad to "It means that I am the son of my father." They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire The youngest, one. have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low grant me shelter for this night." The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This facing them in front. perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS the night had been very dark. of the ambush; he made some efforts to find him, however, but without couverte_. and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those Devrait durer toujours! devrait durer toujours!