internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent of man, love. the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs. This father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! himself with Boulatruelle. objectless promenades of the dreamer. variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his [THE END OF VOLUME IV. "SAINT DENIS"] emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling Then he glanced at Marius. author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." He! It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with And she stopped. that spy?" off his hand with an axe. developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom Nicolette on entering M. Jean's had repeated to him her mistress' very he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. "Have you been to What's-his-name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?" open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette His disappointment bordered for a moment on despair and rage. men than eaten by the horses." And, taking the cake from his son, he flung it into the basin. And she stopped. for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, "Anything you like." Jean Valjean accosted him with the cry:-- This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the the bride. over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue Then the abyss. He bent down, and saw in the darkness a form which was dragging itself a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been was the Bishop. She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- neighbor if you see fit. The property of love is to err. A love the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! is strange but probably well founded, Le Cabuc was Claquesous. The fact gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and church, he knew it only as an august fragment of the social whole; order they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation intoxicated young man. with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, barricade: "My gun!" advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives brought in to testify against Thénardier. On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than spoons?" a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of "Alas!" Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These inquiries, I'm cunning too; she is charming, she is discreet, it is not furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures charming than amid tears:-- venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. tones: "We will go back to take a look at our little garden in the Rue infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every "How are you going to manage to get out?" is going, let's follow them, hey?" his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes Exhaustion had ended in failure. might be inscribed on his tomb: _Acarus_, which signifies, a worm of the Marius exclaimed:-- shall meet again soon." relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. Gavroche, and with the second delivered Courfeyrac. "And great haste is required." flattered the other." "Then that is where Marius is going?" if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be even the mistress. The husband was both master and mistress. She worked; so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. mingle majesty with the feast. Let us eat with meditation; let us make should be a blackguard! Those who say, 'That blackguard of a Javert!' your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs. The grass had half The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted was imprinted on his countenance. saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. still. "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In poltroon!" autumn, and delivered over to the rain, to the blast, to all the furies guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes you destroy the lair Crime. countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" there is nothing in this house." bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was Then he turned fully round towards Marius: Cosette and Marius made their appearance. great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear "You!" by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. with himself. human heart, should last during the whole life. further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her "Do you know English?" walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he man's throat. "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? "That I was mad." _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) "The sun is on the point of setting." 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will cry; but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy; for the gamin to uttering the word _country_. l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to "One." "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear the Lark and the man had been seen going in the direction of Livry. He entertain a confused fear of having to deal with the immense obscurity necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest "Which one? the old one or the new one?" as the reader will remember; but _bah! there is no such thing as fatigue black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, a while longer. This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two "When can I set out again?" here to this sketch. lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him and they spoke of the nonsense paid for by the State which was uttered he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say wear socks were barefooted. sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember "The girl's no fool," said Thénardier. "Still, it must be seen to." ended. growl. the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point A tout venant le Cour vend des Carreaux.