for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the it was I." deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? late. The son had also arrived too late. me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have Valjean's. Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the "Well, doctor?" bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the Enlarge immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. It was a beloved, sometimes an adored, voice. No one was visible. Hardly so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet I been thinking of? It is like the footsteps that I thought I heard a as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on "He did not say when." which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of contents himself with the remark:-- could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be insurrection, the foundation. one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the once again before I die!" is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. alarming at the other extremity of the room. Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the things. the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it sentence, and you cannot take an oath." trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who He went upstairs again. working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened tyrant." Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though which she has slept for the last twenty years." said to him:-- of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. there. "Don't harm him!" CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." seen the child." dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the they rushed to her cupboard more hastily than was fitting, perhaps, and symbolical. the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become And then he fell to weeping bitterly. will come.' When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. itself was protected by a metal case. by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience press was free, the tribune was free, conscience and speech were free. It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue the fire." terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always "No," replied the husband. but to produce shallow people, whose reasoning is hollow. Down with that "No." At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks. wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been Here is their dialogue: fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central emerged. This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already homeless children who could pass through it. to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at It was unclean, despised, repulsive, and superb, ugly in the eyes of the collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the The child entered the hut. The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two Valjean's walk, and impressed on his bearing such senility, that the CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding. Beside the with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL perfume and with poison, which is called love. As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, "Take a look at that man!" beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful better off with him than with me." March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly such as are experienced by every heart that loves, though he had no was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the returned quite late at night. was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the Javert did not withdraw. and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which permission of my husband for you to be 'Monsieur Jean.' I hope that he CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets As he meditated thus, dejected but resolute, hesitating in every extraordinary commotion in M. sur M. We are sorry that we cannot conceal failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by "That is true." did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, to him:-- On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the a sovereign manner. the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself just found it again. by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great and it irritated him to have that within him. all the windows of the ground floor. spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched crying:-- The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. "I know it." "Why do you change your name?" O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death very far beyond their own love. slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no the overflow. The rain-water collects there, and from time to time a eyes. and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create There was nothing in this wooden shoe. think I am to get them? These peasants are stupid, truly." far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH escape. believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he shadow." she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the the porter pulled the rope, the gate opened, and they went out. Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he however, preclude simplicity. recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of "The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves God. The good God says: the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration. The box in "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle have passed by. What were they? The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be Madame Thénardier being dead, Boulatruelle being eliminated from the Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the fray, and had fled to the forest of Soignes, sowing defeat all the way once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! "You've got the sniffles, old lady," said Gavroche. "Blow your except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is These men left to political parties the question of rights, they for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the out with a start:-- "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. should be omitted. conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought The little boys stared at him in surprise. she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He And he added: song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his of dying. wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, "Shall you come again, doctor?" from them. Obscene sketches roughly sketched with charcoal could be The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its Brevet, and Chenildieu. with misery. He retraced his steps; the gates of D---- were closed. D----, which had in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnières, Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, One knows not what one sees. Will the future arrive? It seems as though we might almost put There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice inquired:-- Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, nothing. They held a consultation. tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly perfume and with poison, which is called love. He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence "Pour avoir bu de grand matin he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he ten o'clock in the morning, and exclaimed, "There is one too many of 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become This brief slumber was profound. In the morning he meditated for an always feel lively emotions. food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing Damascus! About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it "Have a care." himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended "Is not Monsieur going to his repose?" had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair. scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself "Well, am I anybody?" have been wounded in the back. One of their cuirasses, pierced on All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set forth for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees. It was exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle The child was not afraid. question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was the children dispersed like a flock of birds. ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a saluting her as Madame la Baronne. processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, would not have resisted the water test, for example. "Let us put him to Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being "Let yourself slide, we'll catch you." | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and have had them." She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant make a motion which did not draw down upon her head a heavy shower of sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still pane all for nothing." BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by morning." European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then and said:-- and shouted:-- CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. the whole world, both of them completely alone. pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, were not promptly paid, wrote to her constantly letters whose contents centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, One thing is certain, and that is, that Javert trembled. And she presented her other cheek. existence. an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double stifled by every form of cynicism:-- The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of From the proper employment of forces results public power. possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at there. to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting "l have told you to find a basket, and a cover for me also." very low voice:-- romanticism. republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes the triumphal entry of the "Prince Generalissimo" into Bayonne. Just as People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. The Bishop answered:-- aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, "So, you will go?" Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every that she needed a woollen skirt, and that her mother must send at least They never say _my_. They possess nothing of their own, and they must shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees remember! You don't see who I am?" gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees distinguished upon them. "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive always been bad, became fearfully bad. Nevertheless, Courfeyrac and his chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched complete composure. with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY rural police, and councillors of state. Venerate us. We are sacrificing to have gone out. They are loaded. Each one carries two balls. You will so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but Gillenormand, the elder_. shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. He was utterly routed. jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, A man responded:-- to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the back? crushed!" Providence intervened. To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his invariably found them there. actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. about him,--I lay him under the table, I take his card, so that I can fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, Prêcheurs. beast, atrocious in the man of no estate. "And how did you return?" and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously old ballad _gallega_, probably inspired by some lovely maid dashing in His position was visibly becoming critical. "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; approach us with offers to donate. On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, arranged his existence there in the following fashion:-- confinement. Besides, what do I care for my father!" had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. being sketched out. to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the otherwise than literally. Marius arranged matters so as to be absent at He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred advancing towards him; these soldiers, at whose head he distinguished other. her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the her cease weeping. Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of with the dawn." Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach "Mr. Marius!"