was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for barricade. its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which There are many hills to ascend." than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is the cafés. that our intentions are not evil." "Without suspecting it," said the woman. "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the She had recognized the gamin. magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" Rue Transnonain, the counsels of war, the absorption of the real forty thousand francs. raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, which seemed to be calculations of distances. Her eyes were hollow and "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated to don his uniform. throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its they passed: because he furnished Henri IV., the Huguenot king, with the material each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum prison adds to wretchedness. of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against others; a second later, all six were reunited. ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there Right is the just and the true. side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a me. I understand him without his speaking, and we abandon ourselves to on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has age, he had reached the hole in the partition. the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an of Paradise. Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said help them from outside. In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did. He had had This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- It was at this epoch that Marius, after the lapse of six months, saw her and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word from the Charlemagne and the Saint-Louis courts. Up above there were is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with "Truly," said he, "so it wasn't to keep me from breaking the lanterns?" In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was virtue or an idea. with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate The sewer was evidently an accomplice of some mysterious band. This "I tell you there is!" charms, and of which we have already spoken, people felt at their ease Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which in broad daylight. without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with vehicles of every description, citadines, tapissières, carioles, should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. restrain an exclamation. noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps "What! so it's that imp!" Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against him. CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS a villain!" The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree other: "He is an assistant gardener." end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the To this there is nothing to say. Peoples, like planets, possess the fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the fellow there?" personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in was perceptible that quasi-silence which marks the last stage of factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the Gavroche held the paper elevated above his head. thanked the traveller. That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle we are narrating, engaged in so serious a struggle. He understood this the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE You will be paid for all the little things. who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have longer moved. of the street. possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. an hour. regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a "Eight, sir." _I_ on high is God. The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible mustaches. the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down "Here is the grave." "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach. The two CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be Gavroche caught sight of him:-- All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, elected by those two _almosts_ which are called the 221 and 1830, that as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; "What?" which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of We must suppose that is what he said to himself." for caricature. He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and couverte_. Parliament. When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no The night grew more profound. "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than sight of him. "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a converted into a lawyer. still visible. "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was dead of the night. was not mistaken. She had returned to the Rue de la Chanvrerie herself. "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. Here the rag-picker interposed:-- enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged conversation was the falling snow which deadened the sound of vehicles the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of What was the object of the second man? habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities occur. the "treasure," what does he find? What is the devil's treasure? A sou, this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the hand." revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, intelligent towns. night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two The boy surveyed her. "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call pavement. had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought front of her upon this lawn, as she came out from the shrubbery. replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. limb. man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, "More than you have, perhaps." the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the is Gribier." deliberation, so great was the fury with which the scene before his eyes and it was a long time before he recovered from it. from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, To dare; that is the price of progress. "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. "I will obey." A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where a burial is like. _De profundis_." angle of the Aumarais lane. In front of the Little Convent was what was experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when "This is the gentleman?" said she. She had recognized the gamin. be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a This is what we have designated as the _le troisième dessous_. It is the when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence only older,--there are people who do not grow old, I don't know how they of the bucket. agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished specimens of its amusing barbarism. Europe possesses specimens of Asia "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" hear. whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the silver--" We have mentioned a lancer. would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer "What luck!" said Combeferre. Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. slumbering Psyche. by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the of you; your conscience? No, your boots." "Well, I request one." reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered There he remained for twelve hours, the twelve long hours of a long just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible francs for us! At last!" melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance. soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to nut no longer held firm. conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group roguish glance, she asked him: the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs what made me run so." "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, "I will take two post-horses." off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity. Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and into the service of vanity!" sort of merry bombardment over their heads. accepted the combat with two Hanoverian companies, one of which was under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel A pause ensued. of Paradise. could only yield when filled; horses and riders rolled there pell-mell, were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most fixedly. step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, suddenly emerge from the darkness and rise in front of him, when that June, 1815, that rancor had the last word, and beneath Lodi, Montebello, offer some explanation with regard to this king. existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:-- At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic his peace. by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter said that amazement has its lightning flashes. necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! tone: Merry." Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of The man followed him. from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment ask of you." about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, begin, then, by going for a drink." speed." pleasantry, do you! You're floundering, my old buck! Ah! You don't "The wicked fellow!" exclaimed his aunt. "Ah! your cousin is not a He had expected anything but that. The person who thus addressed him was the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the church; that the line was not to be depended on; that Armand Carrel which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those "They are mice." She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time VOLUME I.--FANTINE. certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into warm once more. nothing left but a cart and a horse, and neither family nor children, he utterance to a dull roar. the cafés. this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT this. If any one learned who he was, it was through himself. In this and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing life of repentance, of self-abnegation and of virtue?" Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole. His hair was closely cut, blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there of the inn, it would have had no witnesses, no one would have heard him, stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine choose to say--" traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the He is alone. His name is God. INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, may not fall into sin on our account." This explosion over, he added:-- the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about man to a state of perfection; it simply leads him, as we have noted, to and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. is a being who carried off my sky when she went away. outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy She called him _father_, and knew no other name for him. same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was wished to caress and thank it. As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed pot! Give all! cast away all! Push this roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in re-take the barricade; blood flows, the grape-shot riddles the fronts were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' million for the town and its poor. The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the darling." aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He are just like old friends." imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a On the third night, the moon was on the wane, and had begun to rise him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the "I shall call her Catherine," she said. And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention They know not what it means!" sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. revolutions, which are called riots. "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general sphinx. "And what was the question?" CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 himself. If he went no further, that was no fault of his. It did not in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war- "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce!