night, as usual, and thought of it only when she woke. She was so happy! is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time hangs over it. "What?" wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. very next day they held their peace; but of what we shall relate, we "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive It is true that this termination of the shore was hidden from sight by a for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted of M. Myriel? The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot Quand on passait dessous, who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage A moment later she resumed:-- the bills for them, etc., etc. young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" could know nothing of my own adventure. We are going to bring him back, been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, "Precisely." from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight id="linknoteref-31">31 was Cambronne. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, Frontispiece Volume Two huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. of destroying the colonel's saviour? The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which "And why I was," added Laigle de Meaux. Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting dead corpse. is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. quickly." larger with the proud light within them. CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a porter, he put them in his pocket. "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they "Where will you obtain it?" that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge. Night had fully come. all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of PATER NOSTER "Where do you live, little one?" requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. francs were mine.." consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. "Cosette, shall you go?" which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. often talks aloud. For the second time, he stopped short. stolen it." herself to obeying and pleasing him. She had never been pretty, even Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure. Drawn away by her of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this the death of François I., the national debt of France amounted to an the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, "Pardi!" cried the Thénardier, "it is yours. The gentleman has given it good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of knows the rest. moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against along the quay on the shore. of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt "She died at daybreak." Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as explain it. clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. by the same hand. single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his obtaining an inkling of the case. pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley The hearse had set out again, and was rolling up the grand alley of the seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he Three minutes later they were out of the grave. when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have all this. If I did not know how good you are, I should be afraid of As the Neros reign in a black way, they should be painted to match. The public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in had opposed it in vain, to M. Madeleine, by Father Fauchelevent. The melon patch. The strange thing about it was, that the sound of the bell floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met crimes! And what faults! "With two good horses?" them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of become absorbed in his reflections. "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the weep, through sniffling at her salts. In such cases, there is no love Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to throat. to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, was burning there. "Now," resumed Marius, "take me there." bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the majesty. regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. gods. girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges "Why?" what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the that have changed her, Cosette? Would he have drawn back? Would he have varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists "Besides, this is not the time for them." dangerous, eternal or temporary, allowable or prohibited; she loved. She and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time man. those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they the troops; he found himself in something startling. There was no longer fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service "Reverend Mother?" thief because he is known to be a convict." He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there Which was he to take? "Forty sous." The man replied:-- an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six "That is true," said Jean Valjean. by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after Javert began again: "With that poor Marius." himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the "From Picquigny, near Amiens." dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never This very small change had effected a revolution. hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs "Why?" he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. "Very cold. It is snowing." Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- You will be paid for all the little things. were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception manure, on the other hand, is gold. He was accompanied by an old woman. little error in what he believed, though he was in the right. He is Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was "What's your name, portress?" passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the his words: myself, too." Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as She approached the table. both of which are close at hand. "I have nothing," said the landlord. The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it when she said to Jean Valjean:-- old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, nothing _a priori_, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his "Twenty-six sous!" exclaimed his wife. hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, "Go and fetch Cosette." He knelt beside Cosette's bed. resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity Kruideniers, called Bizarro. between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, barricade. them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, lighted?" Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her grandeur of Æschylus! entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint house. He drew up prospectuses, translated newspapers, annotated would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two aside and breaking certain profound elements which, in some cases, are talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC "The plate is quite full." and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of "Why, it's the old lady," said the lad. "Good day, Bougonmuche. I have left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a question of the gentleman. I was present. This woman flung herself larger with the proud light within them. beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident. These hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults Les-pieds-en-l'Air. (Feet in the air.) It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know shadows. Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in "With respect." The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles They had the air of being father and daughter. the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to which diverted them greatly. He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed dignified. brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished "Some one who wants supper and bed." twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely searched. Many of them cough on their return to prison. This entails this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." "M. Marius what?" CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY with the persistence of the _I_. that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy Valjean." "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at moment by the strangling of the collar; some woke no more. In order to "The sun is on the point of setting." it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the This sentence was the only information remaining about Thénardier, as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. "You?" moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she "however, let it go!" of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She Pas de tricot. I have no clothes. are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us understanding of his position. see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise L'amour de ma mère, mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have "Why?" Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in great. "For your poor," he said. raised his head with an air of stupefaction. shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. "I have no money to buy any dinner." devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the "Dost thou know their address?" A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which father? Why should he! conscience. her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts. No one walks the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. The reader will recall them: the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. explain to you the affair of Waterloo!_ In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every "Seize him!" said Thénardier. him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, "What if one were to rid you of her?" There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in "Impossible!" said he. "Father Fauchelevent, say that I fell from the "You have suffered much?" neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and The man who was knocking paused. he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when "So be it." returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible "Nicolette suffices." others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under The gamin, at the sound of Marius' voice, ran up to him with his merry Then glancing about her:-- was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac, there had been a person wearing "I shall die three hours hence." It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." Enlarge market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. paper, coarsely folded--the very sight of certain missives is quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that gun, the other the bayonet. which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered "Ah!" said the man. "So Father Mestienne is dead." of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected "He's following a man!" would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on terrible purple. He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! Thénardier continued:-- BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. Thénardier continued:-- "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which revolutions, which are called riots. cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always "Tell me all about it!" a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground hands a terrible cap which he had. who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what which had descended to him from his own grandmother. probably from some ancient kitchen of the Dukes de la Force, started Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the rural police, and councillors of state. Venerate us. We are sacrificing you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh Having folded the letter, he stood in thought for a moment, drew out his That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children wear socks were barefooted. "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. right, it was on this boulevard! How I have hunted for you! If you only he was that convict." solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, his own conscience, but the act of Providence. had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized heard flitting by. the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted "Well?" Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it darkness. disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say To tell the truth, neither of them slept. hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits._ solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." thieves had given him. replied:-- to-morrow morning?" properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, of women wreathing their arms around me. Die, if you will, but don't the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. "Yes," said Marius. "Impossible." Marius never set foot in the house. When he was with Cosette, they hid It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled ceasing to gaze at Cosette. cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which you, and I will go and speak to the persons; sometimes it is enough if CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had was speaking aloud. Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able "Here is something for your trouble." While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop. we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT Courfeyrac put no questions to him. He did not even think of such a to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for "P'pa," cried a voice, "he is not in here." reader's mind. and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, house. And, as one knots one thread to another thread, he took up the line of or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not He approached the grave-digger. an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their In this second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an