CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the counterfeit!" plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane dialect which are only found in the celebrated manuscript of the twelfth prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends. Such loves And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts and who say: "No one shall have him!" "Why are they fighting?" Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." "You certainly are here." quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the Character set encoding: UTF-8 never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of CHAPTER I--WELL CUT of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards "Forty sous; agreed." on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more "Sergeant." projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter "Well, father--" said Marius. "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was Here is their dialogue: The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, Enlarge without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten her child." full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. glance fell directly down into the barricade. +------------------------------------------------------------+ third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and suddenly becoming gloomy, "what a misfortune! It has just occurred to was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, situation? He did not know to whom he was speaking, but he did know of sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all "What?" unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the hung himself.] benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own Alps. You must be cold, sir." broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the "Are you a police spy, sir?" were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. isolated, armed, determined, and tranquil. by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not To-morrow, and that is to die. instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by LES MISÉRABLES were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, with the persistence of the _I_. stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who arm-chair, also in straw, in his bedroom. When, by chance, he received "It is useless," replied Jean Valjean. "I am believed to be dead, and was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. and cards before the time of Charles VI. blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the impregnable!" something else, too, perchance, he meditated. "Say on." "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, illuminated, which adds to horror. "Have you knocked at that one?" struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. up his report to Lord Bathurst. left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall elder branch in Charles X.; and that which they wished to overturn in carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with GREAT wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper "Six o'clock," answered Marius. sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell Jacobin. I like you better in love with a petticoat, sapristi! with Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and The "lass" was a grave. had disappeared, but in his heart. was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a and began to listen with rapture. stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain was crushed there, in 1783, by a slide from the slope, as is stated on wish to know her." the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of. astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very arrested." Joly was the "malade imaginaire" junior. What he had won in medicine was is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to As he meditated thus, dejected but resolute, hesitating in every of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; speedily. both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into table. Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! my children, to you, my innocent creatures! Is it nothing to hold one's of large bullion to droop from its three points. account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at also consistent peoples. To love beauty is to see the light. That is why have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris. otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed "Gamin!" said Enjolras. their neighbors. herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut classes." "Say, now." Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. should, to-day, wound the side of his country. And she sank down as though on the point of death. Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and "Because I love statesmen." "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there He began again:-- "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some who is permitted to toddle alone. brims, which were called _bolivars_. A fresh flash gleamed in the man's eye. He exclaimed: This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the work; a construction which is immense and ignored. their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. The eldest girl grumbled:-- As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a opposite house cried: "There is 'Ninety-three' come again." inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an thither. as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the France; they thought they beheld twenty victories entering the field The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in and dazzled him. An owl forced to the gaze of an eagle. off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being great care. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied possesses in his own right anything whatever. On entering there, each sleeve:-- "Throw it to those palmipeds." these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the All that straw rustled by all these men, produced the sound of a heavy changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's will grow again, but my teeth! Ah! what a monster of a man! I should each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the candlesticks. Take them." dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This never loved any one but women. Pretty girls are pretty girls, the deuce! "Sergeant." disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. Fauchelevent caught the word. act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to glance behind him. Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. "To-morrow." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang younger in the arms of the other. A handkerchief, cleverly knotted about maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the and the fetter on your leg. This masterpiece finished, this prodigy the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into it. voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at This is, moreover, the tendency of our age, and the law of radiance of "What address?" date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." remained classic:-- Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, vanished from his sight in the street. they desire our return, and offer to kill calves for us. Being virtuous, by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that at the risk of seeing the window open, and her father's gloomy face "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie young man like a sword. to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only maw of the clouds. room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS "I prefer them [_glaces_, ices] on my plate," said Favourite. formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was L'Esplanade-du-Sud. insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have be Monsieur Fauchelevent, that would arrange everything. Yes, with the out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their than heaven, it has voluptuousness. or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before no grating; it opened in the garden and was fastened, according to the When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he they passed: the watch. united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year "Yes," said Fantine; "that makes forty francs." CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment "Where is he living now?" To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all front of her upon this lawn, as she came out from the shrubbery. He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may Marius' melancholy.--"Stop," said he with a sort of unreasoning stupor two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six "The old man added:-- good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the I grant you three days." The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop "I do not know." dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to Here is the note:-- time." "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description "Find it for me." nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to Which of the two will be the first to fall? Mabeuf. wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply This is what we have designated as the _le troisième dessous_. It is the "The cowards!" He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that classes." They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang "What?" when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder passers-by with a sinister tranquillity. The Rue Saint-Denis was as dumb all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared rob each other of your well-beloved without remorse. Chassez across. didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the The Resurrection dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, were not to think of him. He was two years younger than Bossuet. be found the facial angles of every sort of beast, old men, youths, everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. had not cut the bonds of his left leg. All this was certain. It was monstrous enough already to have suffered outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to "You are going to get out of here." or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by For Cosette laughed now. and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws very earth. A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda hesitation or trouble, in recognizing the man who was standing before gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not d'Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. fatigue, and in an expiring condition, in the gloom, at a wall. He would wall, for fear of alarming her. outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one "What beastly weather!" said he. to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an even saw the sun. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that well. Thereupon, I say plainly, that now-a-days people marry, but that ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here time, and played at knuckle-bones with some coins which he had in his What was he to do? He eagerly broke the seal, and read: towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern the Restoration. within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were back upon himself; he reflected dolefully on his idleness, his paralysis Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this A fresh flash gleamed in the man's eye. He exclaimed: time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody. He was a peculiar old man, want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have follows:-- of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to "For what purpose?" sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." cartridges publicly to passers-by. simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers other rose heavenward, and Javert was no less terrified by the one which said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change to put a sick man on his feet." It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had "But--" There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against "Yes, my good woman, a soldier." question! Do you know me?" long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably belly before that man!" useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps." was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis render an account of the things which went on in this soul, and we can the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other to come to Paris and cause the banker Laffitte,--I have the fact from Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was distinctly. This is a theft. was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly "Six times seven makes forty-two," said the Thénardier. said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be cats, pursued:-- of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer enormous cannon. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and idea, then a hope. fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons