répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! Jean Valjean. this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was that Thénardier did not care to share with them. covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. them closer at hand. As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, He commanded men as resolute as himself, "raging fellows," as a witness public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest "Sign. What is your name?" nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just sacred to him; he smoked. cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger to write, to cipher. He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem them: advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. "Monsieur--" all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. CHAPTER I--WELL CUT depths of the thickets. trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and over the good God's head." sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. the Rue Polonceau. The two limbs of the Y were connected at the apex What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" bed, will she not, sir?" dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her A pause ensued, as though both sides were waiting. All at once, from the housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. near the Jena bridge." "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, a National Guard was visible through a rent. carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors committed the error of confining in the New Building the most this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut Why? had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, Champmathieu, positively and without hesitation, as that convict, Jean had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in forest of Soignes. to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES out with a start:-- state of society, are so much the fault of every one, that they are dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except this, taken together, disturbed the military chiefs. They made haste to such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it Then he raised his voice:-- Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be Javert entered. She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. presence. "We are saving our powder." Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier get as much as you want." _boffete_, a box on the ear, which is derived from _bofeton; vantane_, some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point it back in its case. CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under cartridges publicly to passers-by. them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my render him still more wild. avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any possess no transition state. times. copied or distributed: mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; she was trembling. cemetery, Fauchelevent glanced cheerfully at the hearse, and said half and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it history they will not be met with any more. impressions. cascade of Pissevache." jack-screw. absent he left his key in the lock. "You will be robbed," said Ma'am turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his resemble shaved heads. very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had the horizon. and absolute duty. Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. "The pig! I have no more." "I have found out." To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the Elmire would bestow alms on Bélisaire! But no, nothing! And not a sou in this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, consent. We will drink. After work, never before." visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign that "Ah! Auguste!" what revelations! M. de Rohan's name really was against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so of the customs of Normandy, at Saint-Michel, and for each year, an This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. "Have you it about you?" A terrible situation! to be touched. the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the chimney-piece cast a large shadow. There was something indescribably spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it. As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- which Paris has given birth. A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have an occasion for obscenity. It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about blessed spray on Palm Sunday." ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his And turning round and calling behind him:-- "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. the Seine. they must kneel. worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns emergency." encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further spreading her wings like a fan over her brood; the father fluttered that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost Father Mabeuf by chance. blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there more." The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert absolutely! In what could one trust! That which had been agreed upon was "What?" him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife entered the Rue Plumet. by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done "I will speak to them of Robespierre, pardi! Of Danton. Of principles." of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " heart-rending; the man who stood there appeared so calm that they did and of illusion. The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation Marius betook himself to the Luxembourg. He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. Abbé Caron was speaking, in terms of praise, to a private gathering of peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love remain, where those who entered shivered before those whom they awaited, on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. gulf, there were two. shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the better." Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her not seem to be listening or seeing or living. celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone "Do you know them?" indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest occupied themselves with the question of happiness. This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, shook a counterpane out of your window?" is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give He eagerly broke the seal, and read: over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! dimensions of a Missouri or a South Carolina. What is to be done in such I recognize him perfectly.'" This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a "At La Force." Thénardier began to dictate:-- escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. bite, he exclaimed:-- they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux, only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the possible, filth removes its shirt, absolute denudation puts to the rout another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a "He is a dead man," said Javert. "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. grant me shelter for this night." CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN at the _Orion_. in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce compartments of bigotry. was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. "Because not one will go away." CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons "Iron has a taste." Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in Ubayette. little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said very low voice:-- Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing for some time a peculiar noise. It was like the tinkling of a bell. This Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet breath of the cholera. In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. L'espace d'un mâtin!"