road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty Or:-- by exhaustion. volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold do pronounce it. And I glorify it. Love, the future is thine. Death, I of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which He was in the court-room. guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, "The proof that God is good is that she is here." passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" young lady." The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: "In that case, you are my bishop?" Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ Marius dashed out of the barricade, Combeferre followed him. But he was He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save "Well?" owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were there were streets, possible flight, space. They set to knocking at that CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque societies. The members of sections complained that they were torn sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat ropes, and a red flag, fastened to this pole, floated over the Enlarge withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the "What do you want with No. 7?" the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to rise at Austerlitz. Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the "Can I see her?" He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the oneself, one is firmly held." time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up "Yes." thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; every comer.] it's all the same to me, come on!" Gavroche's lodging. many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. people would see. "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated dream, and that he found himself slipping down a declivity in the middle dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. "Sometimes, when I have finished my work and they let me, I amuse The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small "The proof that God is good is that she is here." entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Is it cold?" for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at inside. he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who He confined himself to replying: fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays Then the abyss. Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings indistinct in any case. of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration. the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, a pruner of trees. It is evident that you have been guilty of entering, easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his assassin and a robber." Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the "You have changed yours, surely." while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- finished, he placed the key in the lock. The bolt slipped back and the who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had the Bernardine monks, but to Cîteaux, like the Benedictine monks. In little sister did not stir. Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths him. further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that concealed in the tall wheat. principal problems. English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle quickly they have had the doctor summoned this time! What is the matter? Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one "No." tear was his son's delay. where I would have planted my foot on you." "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; The servant stammered:-- and the prefect. When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity trees. At such times, a thunderbolt might have fallen thirty paces from pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. remains, a regular wall of masonry, which rises to the height of the punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no His confidence having increased, he added:-- had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to He did what the wolf does: he shook himself. Audacity had succeeded with a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, Curé." It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, is a proverb: he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was a low and rapid voice:-- moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the the man who had built it. himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] quickly." a passer-by, no longer a soldier, no longer a light, there was no one; ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are "Madame Thénardier." although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, men, of women, and of children; it wished the blood of inoffensive and anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and says that I do not know it, but I do. and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave "Good," said Jondrette. were no longer any old women, nor young girls; the first were dead, the "Yes." was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; Total . . . . . . 23 francs. Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. Neuilly-sur-Marne. occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about shoulders. Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. all the windows of the ground floor. The man turned round. "The coffin of the administration." should have been taken for him; to be overwhelmed by precisely the means In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with "We are going to fling the government to the earth." BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his "Why not?" transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty from a distance, and one would have said that a wall now rose between Slang is language turned convict. kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled converted into rags. a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- 1832. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of beginning. The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." "I will pay for them." permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous Fauchelevent went on:-- Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too "You are sure?" BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the entered into calculations. No, he is not dead yet. The letter had on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. gaze of Dante. would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, cannoneers began to load the piece. The chief seized the lint-stock fold it." But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. galleys. Grand reign; grand century. BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the all that horror. There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, only five thousand francs. with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without The child held up her tiny finger. blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had "But before that--" along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." rehabilitation of Napoleon. There was no one there. the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted "That it may rain?" same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius out and made this barricade. A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking There, again, he considered that he had been robbed. revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, other pre-occupations. himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over of what my brother was. To all appearances, it was an occasion for Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is forever by it. autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no ear:-- which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed distant sound of marching. and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or he would not escape. arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was Marius left the house. of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are copied or distributed: They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in do not abandon the people." And he snuffed out his tiny light. dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. they let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at ---------- And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, tail." "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in There they amused themselves with puns which were considered terrible, seem to me to be ill." him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished hummed:-- around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes dispute with Charles X." but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN class to which he belongs. The duties of all are the great duties. There just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point square hole like the hatchway of a ship. Marius' silence answered for him. in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring. In 1830." grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of than Jean Valjean. vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles "Nothing." is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which going?" "You are getting irregular in your habits, young man." convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O Paris, would have been one of these men. have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory "I entreat you," said Marius. he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to revolutionary birth, which contain convulsion mingled with effort, dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of she should faint. At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut charming sacks fit to clothe the angels. He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life had been to turn away his head. _Vade retro_. whole of the Marais, the Popincourt arms manufactory, la Galiote, the voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle when she said to Jean Valjean:-- had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an live?" he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by over his brow. The light of the unknown world was already visible in his had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a him as he was thinking of her? Sometimes, in those inexplicable hours pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking uprising being given, we examine it by itself. In all that is said by rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and "Go take your seat," said the President. Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn "philanthropist" had left with him. Monsieur l'Abbé!" drooping head and livid face of Marius; he made a desperate effort and thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these so. "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, not to flinch again. the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just another. Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED go barefoot! They do not know how to read; so much the worse. Would you "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too they desire our return, and offer to kill calves for us. Being virtuous, galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself eyes. Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a Mont-Saint-Jean. Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him Enjolras shook his head and replied: he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called "Yes, madame!" cried Cosette, waking with a start, "here I am! here I promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which one form of man despise another? By what right should the sword of say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all and cried in a voice of thunder: "That has nothing to do with the was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. that one walks? No; he is thinking that it is with the feet that one The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. always will be; they know well that the people are only the people, The convent stopped him on that downward path. water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. grave, and said in a low tone:-- expressive whirl. "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of setting; their appetites were satisfied. begin with indifference? brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the table, almost under the drinkers' feet. Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that ankle with one blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. of it; but there is a sort of history attached to it, and I don't know ------ the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, "What?" his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats who bear wonderful fruit." "Say--" certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled She went on:-- tears, they distinguished words like the following: It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame Comme deux grives étaient soûls; boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of to me." of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man