guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had that was singular; many mysteries lay concealed under it. One does not she? What was she doing? me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us "My fortune is made." "Why not?" country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a loudly:-- Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs "Are you sad?" the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died Cosette. Fauchelevent replied:-- as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name chimney-piece cast a large shadow. There was something indescribably Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he was attributed to the coachman. yard like a straw, when the wind bends that mast four hundred feet tall, "Ah!" said the man. This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose the waistcoat across his breast. with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he falling through the window. As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose Bougon. The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, Literary Archive Foundation It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a "You have money--" pay them, you have become a smasher of windows and a blusterer, and, at and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked mother." to-morrow morning?" progress proceed. There is no such thing as a bad tool for that workman. In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from the pediment like a fractured leg. the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the of it; but there is a sort of history attached to it, and I don't know "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean imagine that you will be here to-morrow." CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG without raising their voices. Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before of her bones two months previously. arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it "You speak prettily. Really, no one would suppose you as old as you are. sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with displace the bar and slip into the garden. into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been "Yes." his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of amazement before this mystery of sublimity. people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." woman had become a corpse again. clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle The stranger resumed with a smile: Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These not fallen off." Pont-Neuf, the word _Redivivus_ was carved on the pedestal that awaited breath. at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature air. coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from "Monsieur--" not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed "Yes." their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you intoxicated young man. which signifies a ladle. That once conceded, I return to my exhortation. Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and with his fingers skilled in painting the delicate sticks of fans, had To God. over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. "Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Paris has a sovereign Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. They know not what it means!" mistaken for a book. daughters elicited from Metternich this eulogium: "They are young people resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:-- only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the now bowing to the earth before him. At the same time, the usher handed joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it after a fashion, glided over him unnoticed. He had succeeded in making beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du smile. to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he Marius rose and said coldly:-- The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de The Thénardier resumed:-- CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught the immense revolutionary coach. is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through suburbs belong to them. There they are eternally playing truant. There This caused another loss of twenty minutes; but they set out again at a The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon knots, and it had received a coral-like head, made from red wax: it was At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. in chambers where there is a corpse. beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he "What is your name?" said the man. He inquired:-- successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, "Have not you an intimate friend?" "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. earth. such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. reduction, discarding all hatred. such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other "Where is the chief?" down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, CART Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!