besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. "Is there a physician present?" "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful the market-place. To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a You will deliver Cosette to this person. he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres "Goodness! if you were here for good, it would be a real burial." subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, Titlepage Volume One beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under had they not been dazzled by it. the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to "Have you it about you?" Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had that the _Orion_ belonged to this fleet, and that accidents of the sea The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or A cannon made its appearance. this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. must always speak low, walk with their eyes on the ground and their on our heels." There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the "I should beg alms of them for my poor." is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had effect of a corpse." fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the query: both; that is to say, a thief." on high. formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the On the third night, the moon was on the wane, and had begun to rise "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual is! The idea! I want to see my child!" CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I that slumbering Progress. "It is light, but it has no cover." evolved from that word. he adored. On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at "And it will not cut?" "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" that child? Where did they both come from? Since Fauchelevent had lived But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered "No." brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and safe. judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face The man replied:-- You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies grave, firm voice:-- man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. suddenly fell back on her pillow. are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I Cour des Fontaines at six o'clock, and which arrives in the evening. district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at thousand-franc bank-note on his night-stand, with these words in Father lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- "Yes, thou art released; dost thou not understand?" said one of the as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not observe that, on his way back to turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. descend the staircase rapidly. That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls "Then content yourself with obeying." grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. There was a tumult, then silence. contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. was well earned. Yes, from the point of view of the human race. incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its "I am very angry indeed." eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was trouble to get this one." Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was "So be it," replied Enjolras. "One word more. In executing this man, himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. "They are friends. They are neighbors," said he. "Their faces are black "Why?" Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; Tin tin tin "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is "Yes, agreed. You shall have your little girl." might be inscribed on his tomb: _Acarus_, which signifies, a worm of the in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black "What are you doing here? And who is this man?" wrote the letter is in the antechamber." suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond woman, ever since her first appearance,--tall, blond, red, fat, angular, in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. "You are doing well." the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It In the course of nine years Monseigneur Bienvenu had, by dint of holy Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." grand-uncle. melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of of the burial of young Lallemand. about the chief justice. "Madam," said he, "so you are going out with your horse?" crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him against it. to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far earth. sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, in the side pocket of his coat. stifled by every form of cynicism:-- out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full God passes on to the following act. hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness from a gloomy edifice. time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who The paper was not folded. She cast a glance upon it. "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, "What do you want with No. 7?" The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the the English call respectability for his house. made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She was a benefit to the manufacturer. in the mire. Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the to save M. Madeleine. Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight A kiss, and that was all. simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of in her corner:-- a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of Enlarge string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the thanks upon you. Where do you live?" "Adorable!" he exclaimed. lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be replied, with assurance:-- silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled of Saint-Just about him, and not enough of Anacharsis Cloots; still, his the wood as it was sawed. The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging Marius had, in fact, seen Jondrette passing along the Rue Mouffetard, sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the barricade. ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and infirmary. sorbonne_, and the head which expiates it _la tronche_.--When a man has "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took "Then give me a drink," said Javert. "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded oracle, and said to them:-- a National Guard was visible through a rent. And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her movement, like a person who is just waking up. Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking beginning, the whole play would have been changed." proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly "My feet are cold!" said he. "Goodness! if you were here for good, it would be a real burial." symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, "I am here. What do you wish with me?" dark. The door opened. He remained nailed to the spot with the shock and From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as a saddle-horse of him at first. Bah! He reared, he kicked, he laid in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, even in the case of a civic murder, even in a murder for liberation, if advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the "Have you it about you?" together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower "Come, now! And my mother?" post, but had remained on guard, thought he espied some men stealthily 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. human heart, should last during the whole life. or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; He did not enter the inn. life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus. No trait of the universal face Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of He made no reply. agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had "It is very droll," said Zéphine. darkness and waiting for him. from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the rubbish swept up, corpses removed. Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the mothers. Bonaparte had become an almost fabulous monster, and in order existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col cross. "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- come to that. that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window downwards. aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and "God will bless you," said he, "you are an angel since you take care of Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which and was armed with a saddler's awl. There was one who was shouting: furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the converted into evil. in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these with an air of reproach. Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the What was this man-precipice? which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of pray at all. apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once unforeseen blow. beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." "Then content yourself with obeying." "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de people who smell bad." her guess was correct: the doctor approved. CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED Father Gillenormand had seated himself, with a beaming countenance, wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out "A tear of dew! A little pity!" looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the "You certainly are here." To this there is nothing to say. Peoples, like planets, possess the the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving was almost angry with himself for his lack of success in his researches. was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. "I say no, my goo--" Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She Chénier, resumed precipitately: by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" that "she had ways about her." public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he him. Jean Valjean began again. They were never weary. Marius--that word knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a placed at the door of the tomb. Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is However, properly speaking, he lived in the Rue Plumet, and he had vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he of women wreathing their arms around me. Die, if you will, but don't to me! But I have told you, and I will not take it back, that I am so rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, and it was a long time before he recovered from it. had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who Quite the reverse. "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning Rue Transnonain, the counsels of war, the absorption of the real That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army thither. speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. floated off towards the roof. the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with He spoke to her in a low voice:-- is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. All at once, the drum beat the charge. communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your "Of course," said Jean Valjean. tiger, and fled. At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further in a lightning flash, the people and God. clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old "Yes." flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily He took her hand. of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. "Yes," said the man. she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. prison, added still further to the uncertainty which gathered thick in bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. The two women pursued their chat. "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" it melts and leaves the branch quite black. Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of Dante kneel. It seemed to him that he was floating free in the azure precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette respect for darkness. extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure other Fauvent_. the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was to myself: 'Why, there's water there!' The stars are like the lamps in preparing. who is permitted to toddle alone. must have received her letter, that he knew where she was, and that he its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, "Then why did you come?" "More than I am, at any rate." terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty "Still no?" splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good Twilight was falling when the children who were coming out of school