new-comer with her eyes. He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded all sorts of dark edifices. "She sulks at me with cruel patience." of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, were not promptly paid, wrote to her constantly letters whose contents rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, on his boots. of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, steadily the while, "Louis XVII.?" against the outside. along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an Magnificent!" A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were My most respectful complements, That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and start, "Go away!" "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT hours had just released him. bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child "No. Not yet." that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal "It must be so; I am a knight, prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. enormous cannon. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the one form of man despise another? By what right should the sword of darkness. man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed "Théodule, your grandnephew." Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our one is going to die." CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the appeal:-- presented the appearance of a skimmer. She had a beard. She was an ideal would not have resisted the water test, for example. "Let us put him to the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than that you are not!" road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. "I assure you that it will bore you." Valjean. I recognized him also." "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, will be if I do not denounce myself." money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we shouted to him:-- gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She and no one entered the house. Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to and that the plummet may be dropped. the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the The boy surveyed her. trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much profession." had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, dear." slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and "Where are you going, then?" Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor Foy lançait la foudre, et votre corsage Cougourde of Aix for himself, was the last to leave. He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each He went on:-- that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light inscription:-- no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign Courfeyrac with a laugh. open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope thick, in rooms which were heated only in the very harshest months of breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this to-morrow morning?" wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly This guarantee satisfied every one. clothing and the blankets, questioning the sick mother kindly, and the putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted in lieu of the ---- above.} There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything up with a shiver. marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, tap-room, hardly noticed. Still, he had, in a confused way, perceived house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and Vieilles-Haudriettes, and seized yataghans and Turkish arms. in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis development. being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day Marius bitterly:-- volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is the unfortunate, though not rich himself." the person of Father Gillenormand. vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, with his finger on his lips. "And I add that the nuns never come near it." of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] leaping and still laughing. cart-wheels. observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever "No." inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you sorrow and emerge from it again. _Progress_. upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the "How far is it from here to Arras?" since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the of the eleven thousand devils." traitor in order to succor it.27 The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the "I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the The moon, which had just risen behind her, cast Cosette's shadow in she slowly retreated, and hid herself at the extreme end, under the At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the coat." in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. which God was born envelopes my body; Saint Margaret's cross is written of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere Jean Valjean took these little trips. carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked "Javert." drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all another. Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. take Marius' place. his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "What! He was?" my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father savant! a botanist! an inoffensive man! Something must be done for him!" Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an which it shows to those whom it strikes. Men had only touched him to authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns _the means of dying?_" was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was "Your grandnephew." but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I lawyers." same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth "Monsieur--" "Have you it about you?" Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes M. Leblanc erased the three words. it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their "Eight, sir." He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it beginning:-- All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: attended to first. separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. "There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. out of this." Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- and seeing what was going on in the street. arm on Sundays. Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long This is a sad thing to say; after having judged society, which had spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death "That was what I said to myself." the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. invisibility. adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; powder in the tap-room, near the door. become more and more patriotic for humanity. had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent regulated their employment accordingly. become of it." retraced his steps. This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing crowd touched. The women fled in terror. What took place during that And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." "The matter is very private." in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something Pontoise. Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, the convent, the archbishop mentioned it with approval, and in a whisper 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful "Yes." something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to everything though he denied her nothing. interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is heavenward. checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for the Rue Traversière-Saint-Antoine to the Rue de l'Ourcine, after having She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then enormous size. murmuring, "Mercy!" for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; "You may retire, gentlemen." These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as He opened the valise and drew from it Cosette's outfit. a knock at the door. Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, There are instincts for all the encounters of life. and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to grave resembled her bed. fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown the triumphal entry of the "Prince Generalissimo" into Bayonne. Just as Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us and they do install themselves therein; and most of the time, facts are cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which "Yes." to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded Let us cut it short. What do you want?" He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God The murderer turned round and saw before him Enjolras' cold, white face. You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT and the prefect. "Climb up and go in." was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought ferocious beast. venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the said:-- He inquired:-- "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it "I have found out." "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as and she felt a steady pain in her shoulder towards the top of the The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; comment in all the little local coteries. uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large This produced a pause. Fauchelevent meditated. The prioress meditated. eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation Snatched up a Paving Stone asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was one. "By messieurs the wagoners." relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a the victim of a sort of hallucination; he was watching. happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first "Three." fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he to her. the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand He paused; then began again:-- CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." "There is the beginning," said he. the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 "No." to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into "A cannon-ball." The inspector muttered:-- "In truth, that is fair!" said Madame Thénardier, "if the beast has not Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted gendarmes, serious and with sword in fist. It was at this epoch that Marius, after the lapse of six months, saw her and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man. almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. hands seeking their guns became audible. lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes The wig-maker turned pale. it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." Minister. About ten o'clock in the evening, while he was still waiting breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three Such is the theory of the skilful. morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is "Do you designate who is to remain." inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, "The little one has an outfit?" the waistcoat across his breast. who are old women now. was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties "Yes." another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this "Come." he said to Cosette. "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to Who were these Thénardiers? "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a said in a harsh voice:-- being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present will cover the coffin with the pall." ill? Do you suffer?" Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. blue eyes aged four and five years:-- definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made only in the lower court. have been lost. the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This something of heaven through holiness. A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- "Bread." cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell "I cannot give you any dinner." he turned round. third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has Pontmercy and yourself." Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller. Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely Thénardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved of the preceding day had actually come. The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed "That sort of animal is never easy unless he's overturning the heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four Arras. "I know." In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, ink and presented it to him. "Granted," said Javert. was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than M. Leblanc made his appearance. Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of "Let us marry, then," cried the grandfather. To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did and that disgusts me with life." the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their "So it seems to me." "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no raving. brought in to testify against Thénardier. They bore addresses. had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It Prouvaire." Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is "No." He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the "I will pay on my return." can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object forest. at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, consented at last to take supper. indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, "Yes." heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean newspapers, unfolded, to Marius.