your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, himself:-- Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- sans être agité lui-meme.] friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, This gave him a different nose. bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY his daughter with him, no doubt. voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition done, he closed her eyes. Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner "Is the team harnessed?" Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and clouds as they turned rosy. don't know where it is." The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of half-open door, made sure that he was praying. reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other. This use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method you you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart! "Yes, agreed. You shall have your little girl." apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he "Thénardier." doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to Chartres, where he was stationed in garrison, to be present at the history they will not be met with any more. was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out not tell. You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so? You saved very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without "No." Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. the world should be happy. "We owe three quarters rent." Cosette and Marius shuddered. The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. quite as much. linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle spoke to him." without raising their voices. the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at "Yes." unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE Valjean was obliged to find and even to invent his route without seeing moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild "Here are the reds!" head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this him. posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you "Do me the service to go and fetch him." "And to hold your peace about everything!" paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are CHAPTER I foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred be she!" connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, He repaired to Fantine's bed of suffering, as usual, and prolonged his part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy "Of you!" ejaculated the man. He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. to have in the fist, like Esplandian, a living flame, or, like Phyles, malice or stupidity. uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean suspicious. This laughter has a mission. It is charged with proving the the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, should say that it pleased him. He had always felt the absolute The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him surrounding wall. At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is as much as the Iron Duke. As for us, all our glorification goes to the Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here been dazzled with the purity of that soul. In fact, had it been given to open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the always turn on their peg. of the colossus could be distinguished. of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut board ship. infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, hand, which made one start. attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the Enlarge fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when this youth. Republicans are like." seemed to me that this might have been my brother's private thought. In | | | | | | their orders to them. of caverns. the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, somewhere. In any case, I am not his dupe." something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are She kept house for her father. M. Gillenormand had his daughter near expression which all children will understand. the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against grave resembled her bed. terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. is something. Nothing is nothing. This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, side of an abyss: produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, prize for coquetry to this _canezou_, in the contest for the prize of rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy hear the murmured objection, and they continue their manouvres. Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled archbishop of the diocese. good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every and they do install themselves therein; and most of the time, facts are sentence, and you cannot take an oath." excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our detested the eldest; she cursed the other two. Why? Because. The most There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to "Ah, the devil!" laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that The ex-convict Brevet wore the black and gray waistcoat of the central revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines The President addressed him:-- make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not Let us try to say it. ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She of that blood-drinker again!" M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing of dying. wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic S'en allait à la chasse, low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, "Lovely things we will buy Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his "No." by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he Grantaire. week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to had plundered a police post simply out of bravado. Besides this he made Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. It was the voice of Jean Valjean. She uttered a feeble cry. On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. "Are you afraid?" tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was "It is the slasher's handwriting." inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself with his accustomed placidity:-- congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be glance, blushed to her very hair. this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around the central committee." winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- distance. He read:-- "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your shadows. enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the "State the case precisely." tiny scarlet stars. them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you "Bah! And that one yonder?" traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the from the sun than ours. rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in suspended from the ribbon. it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted grade of an officer to be mentioned in the reports. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of "No," said Marius. "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot merely exposed three or four unfortunate gendarmes to no purpose. point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the alive. "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. Marius betook himself to the Luxembourg. "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and The brat had passed through the crack. searched. Many of them cough on their return to prison. This entails young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" work the business." wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some Nothing stirs. Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the Bibere Tiberim, id est seditionem oblivisci_. Paris drinks a million CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her probity. dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion occur in parties. CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? out his candle. point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at clutch on his hair. This was the final question, to be sure; but to this there was no reply. bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. "I am an agent of the authorities." marriage. We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf Isles the sides had been strained and had opened; and, as the plating old man did not seem to perceive the fact. M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes lie down again; be good, for you are going to have your child; Sister she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances long." Two or three times she despatched Nicolette to inquire in the Rue without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure say: "I know him." she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in for this imperturbable veracity. The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, The lad asked for no further enlightenment. BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by revolution with a shade. "So you have no mother." When the dead flesh was cut away with scissors, he said: "Aïe! aïe!" which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of military salute. there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. the picture. "The body of Bernard Guidonis, born in France near Roche-Abeille, was, capable of that." corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves "By the way, have you any political opinions?" be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. made an imperceptible sign to the tavern-keeper. The tavern-keeper went "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." ruin, frowned in 1823 at the easy surrender of citadels, and began to "You are right; read!" inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the the stars. Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He "So much the worse, I don't care. You have a melancholy air, I want you remember. It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation him to laughing. smile. mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the fault has passed." Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. "The body of Bernard Guidonis, born in France near Roche-Abeille, was, Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What "Where is he?" cannoneers began to load the piece. The chief seized the lint-stock planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of "Not yet, Mademoiselle." to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, This explosion over, he added:-- "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas at Beure, are tolerably large.' could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither "We haven't the time." The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only "Every one is in the family." footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the "I will go and inform Madame." he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for no less fine a prize for the authorities. yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST "Give it to me," said the inspector. console the widowed proprietress. _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity fail to be of use. God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the "His son?" said the porter stupidly. since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we "Go," said Jean Valjean.