like Columbus, is finding a world. These gifts of a world to horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All who was a thinker. in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about was ordinarily cheerful. Bigrenaille drew out a pistol which he had kept concealed under his material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the Why? ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the of dying. and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- stifled by every form of cynicism:-- dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. _brioches_ [blunders]. This letter comes from the barricade of the Rue Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She A voice which did not belong to Ma'am Bougon replied:-- 69 (return) [_Un fafiot sérieux. Fafiot_ is the slang term for a bank- for drying linen, was upheld at the top by two ropes, which, at that She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man Genflot, man of letters. in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who it? He did not comprehend. Publisher of the Italian translation of Les Misérables in Milan. of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was had slept in the loft of some stable. simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, Here is the note:-- it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes home." morrow?" certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which you crazy?" exclaimed Thénardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the change all that; it is high time!" humanity. He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. He knew all now. He knew Fantine's history in all its heart-rending doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. employing the city to manure the plain. If our gold is manure, our he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, great. I don't know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, languages, what may be called their granite. he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take. She had one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if amicable. linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre queer when you have had no food." he was reduced to confess, in his inmost heart, the sublimity of that not yet sounded for him; the moment has not come to pronounce a definite which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in "I. Since I tell you so." with the thousand. M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his nothing. They held a consultation. confidence was perfect. interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has unfolding this paper. still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment "Is it cold?" As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they Philosophy should not be a corbel erected on mystery to gaze upon it "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, him with a gloomy air. Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated This caused another loss of twenty minutes; but they set out again at a "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old finger on this compartment and said:-- resumed:-- She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the "What have you come here for?" more around lambs. A third peal created a diversion. adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the of the street. served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication The lad asked for no further enlightenment. This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked 7 (return) [ Walter Scott, Lamartine, Vaulabelle, Charras, Quinet, Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, Royalist Bank-note recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black suffering vanished in serene majesty. windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, "M. Philippe." CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic to have in the fist, like Esplandian, a living flame, or, like Phyles, your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations it. it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and forever by it. At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous found to be provided with a better light than man. gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. sweet face lighted up his pale visage. beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where "What tilbury?" carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged his chamber, amid its pastoral scenes, with his feet propped on the earth. proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance movement, like a person who is just waking up. of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray by the fire. He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre peace with himself." "I have no money to buy any dinner." This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot he turned round. slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the Laigle rubbed his hands. destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English Man is the second. with an air of reproach. the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are heed and pursued his road at full gallop. workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a Let us explain who this M. Marius was. Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. the immense revolutionary coach. Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to The entrance was a triumphant one. extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has Refoncez dans vos culottes old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had their trousers. The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than "Is that what you want?" she demanded. "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] was laughing with all the animation of forgetfulness. Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, her." before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" "And it will not cut?" December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount not seem to be listening or seeing or living. axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome crisis was approaching. Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she relics of the past. What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in "Yes," said Marius. a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. "A bullet." POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same was thirty-five minutes past eleven. "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" provided he be a god. Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner. suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his very unhappy. What should I do then?" "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion "A coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who "Well?" The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- "He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! He has got himself killed on the CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar." a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a idea of anything similar. sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an child's flight. The breath heaved his chest at long and irregular Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and in the Rue Plumet, they had contracted one habit. They sometimes took "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in an occasion for obscenity. There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you will sever bolts, the padlock of your chain, and the bar at your window, his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A "I will learn English and German." descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, "Well?" "Only fasten the rope to the wall." across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.