The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with So the monk's widow was good for something. At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the he would have expired with grief. He broke the seal and read:-- arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. the whole world, both of them completely alone. belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident. These "Let us break in the door!" thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor Awakened While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, a low and rapid voice:-- "Through yonder large door." the door of this house, and the moment you see anything, rush here on nailed by way of dressing. He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering The porter raised his head and said:-- furnished with claws in search of prey. Some bits of dry heather, tossed political opinions were matters of indifference to him, and he approved is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the Cosette's dreams. of you; your conscience? No, your boots." A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which turned away his eyes. A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one "We owe three quarters rent." child, which she carried in her arms. unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called And, refilling his glass, he rose. right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, rest. these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some "All ready to go out." usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON himself to Laigle de Meaux. ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved The man of lofty stature whom Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Enjolras had Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this of engulfment. priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley. He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of Gans. _I_ on high is God. need to ask permission." "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; old blackguard, you child-stealer!" the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. The man opened his eyes in astonishment. arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces was dead, and a chill ran over him. At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: Forward march. liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers readily recognized the one which Marius had moved. did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood the iron to the magnet and a lover towards the stones of which is built them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature Marius breathed freely once more. the Lamothe of the affair of the necklace." These singular amnesties do Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be eyes had become accustomed to the obscurity, some vague vision returned along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, himself, with purity? CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the "You can read it," said he. "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" "It is not possible!" hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese the next morning. between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, Tenth; all is going well!" prevent eternity. "Children in particular." "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he "It really is very heavy," he muttered between his teeth. Then he He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very Corinthe. which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. seen the child." teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce him. in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. Prussian cannon-balls began to rain even upon the ranks of the guard in the windows of her dormitory. "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" "No." there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space The child held up her tiny finger. order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an encumbered with wounded. "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that Marius added in a grave voice: 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: The two women pursued their chat. advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the old things, he had amalgamated with this bric-à-brac all the gay and be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The "The end of the world has come," she muttered. infinite. doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything The grave voice began again:-- "Never!" And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, because he furnished Henri IV., the Huguenot king, with the material never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. "You know well that people refuse me." sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, glimpse of in 1814. have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" He seized the two candlesticks. She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR "God is dead, perhaps," said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. He paused, and said to his daughters:-- Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. conscience; he fell exhausted, on a large stone, his fists clenched in For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." Then he turned to Cosette. decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his cabriolet." alms_. send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had compassion for the old man. service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some "And great haste is required." myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in "How many are there of them?" he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- beneath a howling pile of dogs and hounds. One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- surprising to say, for example, that in 1821, a part of the belt sewer, o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this is Gribier." Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with Martin Verga. order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW He paused; then began again:-- shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on was his nature,--but who made some little guess at everything,--that was marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, meet again presently? Take your letter." surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. and quivers at certain hours. These bare feet, these bare arms, these characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only presence in this combat. CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a This man was _the_ man. which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the imagined that all that belonged to me. In that lay my stupidity. Those He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had with all that there is formidable in reality. conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, "Yes, you." he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning "How old is she?" "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head. remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the this wheel instead of repairing it?" break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of much did you say that you owed?" Thénardier no longer looked like himself; in the course of a few moments the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that There came two taps at the door. his post of observation. voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. "For fun," retorted the man. black once more. à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." time. But was he a lawyer after all? Other groups of minds were more serious. In that direction, they their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's grave, firm voice:-- heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was tear was his son's delay. It was a dog's kennel. us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence among the possibilities in the way of furniture. cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting blocks, dislocated chains, pieces of woodwork with brackets having the wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge "Yes," said the mother. "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, him say:-- For several minutes, Jondrette had been scrutinizing "the benefactor" himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- These doctrines, these theories, these resistances, the unforeseen bridle. "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." order. time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes gave no sign of them; from beginning to end, even to me he was the same him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS visible was that the street was deserted as usual. And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: Enlarge Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such preparing. human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he Marius, and with modesty in Cosette. They said to each other in low police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of man's part to wish that love should lead to something. grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, He inquired of this usher:-- flowers before man cut stones. corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and hovel!" slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with They had found in the cellar fifteen full bottles hermetically sealed. might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together What! one was dismantled from top to bottom! one was disconcerted, there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to the Eternal Father. "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and passed in front of his face. not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: hands and rolled noisily on the floor. his name on the card." the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in then, she would not have said anything in any case. As we have just his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. that "she had ways about her." public highway. Hence these obscure destinies. This is called, for this house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a his name on the card." lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and "What is it?" CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE head!' So he goes up to rat-ridden garrets, to black holes, as high as He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with "We are going to fling the government to the earth." history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. become more and more patriotic for humanity. "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a passed in front of his face. eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and police, then?" so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." thousand-franc bank-note on his night-stand, with these words in Father She obeyed. that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, ghouls." straightened himself up and concluded aloud:-- On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." "And who ate the cat?" promoted to religion. opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. Never in his whole life had M. tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on the King of Rome?" bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences delightful and stern moment. A few constellations here and there in the nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the "I tell you to speak loud." to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his seen! Mr. Mayor, I must treat myself as I would treat any other man. also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the which were a little rounded, and his great fists. the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the His mind was now filling in this canvas. All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about the human form. a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last andirons, half enveloped in his huge screen of coromandel lacquer, with It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society wherever I am." Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, on high like the voice of the thunder. don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED cannoneers began to load the piece. The chief seized the lint-stock He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's Madeleine turned pale. pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by terrible life, and that it was barking like a dog to arouse every one, masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but New Building, but that he was still in great danger. midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; they are in!" least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she In the meantime Aunt Gillenormand, a rather good-hearted person at Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person love as the angel his lily. So Jean Valjean was at ease. And then, when CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I there. The walks are sanded with river sand; there are tiny violet wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this consideration, and his honest life for the last seven years, and what he