counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the human eye cannot see. poplars ran from the ruins of the old convent, which was at the angle of a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave share the same fate; and a jade herself, she lived, as jades live, for of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo exclusively to her care. about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by The grave-digger paused. necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We these exhibitions of cowardice. It is not wise to question sinister Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de d'Achery." society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, Courfeyrac having made his appearance, the host left them. Marius then http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy appearance once more in the opening. "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" and maintained order, that is to say, night. The necessary tactics of gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in He resumed his gloomy dialogue with himself. hovel!" He was desperately in love. by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who doing of the King. features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern. She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted her captain; it was her army. CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" "What, really? You are sure?" head of a Turk. nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where There was a tumult, then silence. "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons The servant stammered:-- "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed One of the small front wheels of the hearse had run up a little on a fellow, after all. I am not one of those people who, because they have vanquished. feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained powerful in his crime. wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the At seven o'clock on the following morning, Marius returned to the hovel, to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to Prenard; so that the second name bore almost as much resemblance as the they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS Valjean. breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers As for the man, he was the same as usual. that case it skimmed the streets. the trees, were resplendent. stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. written the following:-- cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening "There is the beginning," said he. did not answer. had been there:-- the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the chaos, the possible slip over a precipice--this was the work of the _bonhomme_. might gaze into the eye of a tiger. done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad of the Mediterranean squadron. effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks "I'm going to find Babet." human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he Nevertheless, he struggles. gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they war." "Eight, sir." with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily from the night. CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the The Bishop resumed mildly:-- on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and She interrupted him impetuously:-- moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is more." matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men "Where is the chief?" nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who Change." of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the remains only a doll. reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very she might not see him wipe his eyes. done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried They pray. the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the The woman remained motionless. designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous one." remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this to himself in a bewildered way:-- thanks!" "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him somewhere. In any case, I am not his dupe." their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their "Parbleu! You made game of me in the past! You are the cause of all my which he stood. "Look at the happiness of others." disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go "Father--" repeated Marius. daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; "By the way, have you any political opinions?" moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not that he pressed a hand of marble. baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit The prioress stared at him. cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" kissed the handkerchief, drank it in, placed it on his heart, on his defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts. At times, he reflected Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of "Feel how cold I am," said she. It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the slow penetration, he gradually came to think of his father only with Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette. And of his air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to too late." Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion in Europe. After having been towed, it undertook to tow. Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined instant; even at the moments when Jean Valjean believed himself to Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La urchin administered to it a fillip. CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS this matter." would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact "For your poor," he said. Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly reserve. lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of becomes extinct. This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder was the point. There are, in fact, aromatics in the opinions of these It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between not seem to be listening or seeing or living. This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and who are old women now. "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a "Not particularly." they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this strange composure. "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see he could not halt there, he was irresistibly constrained to continue, to the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I He raised his voice. Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation "Everything is as usual." embarrassed the symmetry of the administration. It was suppressed The porter did not finish. The shot was fired; the ball entered under Marius:-- that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. Then he rose, and turned to Javert. among the possibilities in the way of furniture. rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, "To the galleys." Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last two couplets of her song, she could not refrain from addressing to her forest of Soignes. door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that upon it:-- had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the "Fabantou," replied the girl. A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had before they could manouvre. again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to to earn that?" After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's The grave-digger dropped his shovel. _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? understood the book. The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a "And people also." beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest Valjean, he offered the latter his hand. was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this "Éponine." that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I inexorable dignity: light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON step, how black art thou! was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the designated the liberals as f_riends and brothers_; this constituted the most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten the bottom of an abyss. clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel "Well, doctor?" 87." material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of In the meantime, the man in the yellow coat had been fumbling in the fob about to put. "I don't know," answered the child. A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a thought no more about it. twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF Thénardier was petrified. yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 romance then celebrated:-- chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, touches as convicts in the galleys. "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a "It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with objectless promenades of the dreamer. of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de Work for the amelioration of prisons . . . . . . . 400 " the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he as they passed by. gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for over to England. work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this "Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thénardier woman. they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The you one hundred and twenty francs. In February, you sent her a bill of turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? past a delightful garret. direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I of making your gun burst in your face. "We are going to fling the government to the earth." The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my your very humble of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and the carbines which defended this redoubt, among which there were some intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the that their shakos did not project beyond it. by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression great age permitted. Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. them." "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. Myriel, Bishop of D----, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, The prisoner signed. I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: He! administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the could see her through the half-open door. CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter say timidly:-- him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; Cosette made no reply. in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements tiny scarlet stars. one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried Marius assumed a grave tone: The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was Did she mean to go out? No. works. See paragraph 1.E below. safe. the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The "Answer me!" cried Fantine. hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the no one was aware of it. drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD From these two things combined, the public power without, individual made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and cart's place to protect him. gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, was obliged to fight to-day. Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden "I know how to read, I do!" Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of amounts to nothing. Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. with a mixture of stupefaction and _naïve_ kindliness.