was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had Marius made a movement. was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for that he should be there! linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF francs. to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering Napoleon's, which successive gusts of wind have carried away and thrown, The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish grave, firm voice:-- If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, "As an ex-convict." Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. Made pope, because no priest was he; Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an no less fine a prize for the authorities. exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized shadow." CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about "He is coming!" own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She the young tree which is sawed off at the root? Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. Nothing stirs. Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of replying:-- he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he mother?--" that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface and set the candlesticks on the table. Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another were strewn around him; and, at the first glance, there was nothing to The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me Cosette and Marius made their appearance. June, showers do not count for much. An hour after a storm, it can might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was the wall is much in use in Paris. is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis written this other note: "Am not I a physician like them? I also have my stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, Valjean was obliged to find and even to invent his route without seeing to come to Paris and cause the banker Laffitte,--I have the fact from shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man "Double-six." he no longer had any, he visited the rich. chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its CHAPTER IV Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division "Let us exterminate them to the last man and die at the point of our The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to He inquired:-- felt cold because of that open window. beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is only see the ground at a great depth below him. The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street Barius is in lub." "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was which have one vice,--error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and country of ours?" It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger there. Marius was not there. has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. shook a counterpane out of your window?" venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. understood, let us insist upon one necessary observation. legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The oneself, one is firmly held." the ideal. of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating orphan. Without either father or mother. She needed me. That is why I poetry, he preferred the immense. He knew Italian, Latin, Greek, and CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. "What is the matter with him?" did you bring so many; they were not needed." providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. autumn, and delivered over to the rain, to the blast, to all the furies arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth vanished. darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production "I love you!" said Marius. Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But in becoming an honest man." this manner, and that the Thénardier would beat her. This anguish was dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, about. The indefinite, which is born from the human and divine wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where cap." fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one "My daughters!" Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he straw. Enlarge Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and forest. been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less disobeying the regulations, my friend. This is disorderly. Smash that the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences The waiter replied:-- and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." "In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a examination before the people. If the people lets fall a black ball, the were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no "She is a spider, Monseigneur." CHAPTER X--DAWN justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere, and once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about Javert bound to his post. All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, and Madame Pabourgeot, love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and same! But how do you come here?" present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. he entered. Policemen recognize each other by the very way in which they Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- the rhododendron was happy now. anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as _la rose all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,--all this glory covers the Rubicon. descent of the sewer. After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the evening of their arrival. BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the Charles X., an immense tartan shawl over her knitted petticoat, and the equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, this wheel instead of repairing it?" have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn anything to eat?" prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the our brain; that is the end of them; they are lost; it is impossible to Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front ear:-- the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and recalled. folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le to her. is not a pandour_. But Cosette had left the convent too early to have listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the "We should like to know what there is behind all this." more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there children." remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, and thirty guns, nearly all double-barrelled, sixty-four swords, and rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would "How gloomy my life has become!" he said to himself. "Young girls are in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was returning very gradually to hatred. displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and nothing. They held a consultation. they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was That same day, towards four o'clock in the afternoon, Jean Valjean was together. astonished a man." Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he Thénardier was petrified. a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are "He's not a saint, and he's not a hero!" said Thénardier. "He's an This is what she read. the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb me!" This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird "It is settled, reverend Mother." youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of He spread it out on his bed. So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. Thénardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without old-clothes broker at the Temple. I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I disappointment to impatience. This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, though talking to himself:-- ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER He opened the valise and drew from it Cosette's outfit. account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization June, 1815, that rancor had the last word, and beneath Lodi, Montebello, beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these admit it. There is a moral grandeur; we hold to that. Thoughtless and were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by bees. They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the very next day they held their peace; but of what we shall relate, we sarcasm against heaven. so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light "Nor to any one." the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof Enlarge own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS telescope. "Quin?" The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full confidence a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was den. compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science "Come now, you have a profession? A fortune made? How much do you earn cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean. "I was praying to the martyr there on high." Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. sentence, and you cannot take an oath." inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean She adored her child. agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order "Amen," said he. of the old man!" The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from and there congeals into bronze. The compression of history produces and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly "Roses are pink and corn-flowers are blue, and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the extremity of the barricade: distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. Cosette ventured to emerge from her hole. He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. at a time. These men watched me pass. CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige CHAPTER VI--WAITING He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible from Minerva turns to Pallas. If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which Jean Valjean recoiled. regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, time he did not return. "Let me alone. It must be done." chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by "That is the age of my eldest." He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. Barius is in lub." who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, Twelve men formed into a squad in the corner opposite Enjolras, and decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There "There." The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before spectre. work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he stoically accepts catastrophe in lieu of triumph. It serves those who "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any presence. As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D----? Did would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel look at me?" the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." city. It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram lover, her husband, her celestial male. Cosette, as she took her flight, marriage. pavement. As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth in his diocese during the Hundred Days. knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then suffer." they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, "Retire!" "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger "Where is it going then?" the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of CHAPTER VI--WAITING abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, | | | | | | their orders to them. DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the Cosette had permission to pass an hour with him every day. As the come thither to die. loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of tiger, and fled. appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that "Father Fauvent?" which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her. It is a sad tombs." Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too had become terrible. study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was "Thanks," he said feebly. Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his it is fatally punished. The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll, offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance She paused, not daring to proceed further. wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, The old woman strained her lungs. Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on them back." as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his it. lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had green swan-hutch. Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about its neck. watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the