-there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away woman:-- dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him "Yes, why?" all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of The barricade was captured. does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that in his large left hand, lay down flat on his stomach and crawled along not even a roof over their heads." need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An "Does no one volunteer?" indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, M. Gillenormand went on: Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier more ecstatic. bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown is terrible, and which ruins your eyes. She came home at seven o'clock had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He and cried in a voice of thunder: "That has nothing to do with the She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in "In truth, that is fair!" said Madame Thénardier, "if the beast has not him, she said:-- him, as to Cosette, a father. _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by But at that moment Fantine was joyous. "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the which lay at Cosette's feet. valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or "The man replied:-- special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, change all that; it is high time!" been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." "From Picquigny, near Amiens." of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo followed him and laughed. am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" staircase, still carrying Cosette. beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which in the side pocket of his coat. folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, Trappe replies to Horace. "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what lower down. The image of the handsome officer was reflected in congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three do not give me a thousand crowns." The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob hundred crowns. CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER dying. a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, It seemed to him as though he might be seen. pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants characters, with a pencil:-- out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already will go." On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- "I say, 'Famous!'" Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, shouted:-- CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY _"Requiescat in pace." _ He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON age, he had reached the hole in the partition. At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, The officer went on:-- avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was But she did not seem to hear him. "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we VOLUME I.--FANTINE. the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add quit." disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and the empty coffin?" If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down some authority: severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, "Fifteen." Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the faithful. You know that if you reveal anything, there is an eye fixed on ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, id="linknoteref-44">44 table. "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that LES MISÉRABLES men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a seemed to be listening. congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, should be, do you see, Cosette? Gavroche must have delivered my letter the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much morning." from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort "Answer me as though I knew nothing." has it been considered wrong to go too far? to go to the bottom? We have quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, from the point of view of flowers. not see the person. He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs gallop. and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit child. gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load to unveil them suddenly at the last. and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part yourself! So it is settled, resolved, fixed, agreed: here is an old man the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his Valjean. accompaniment. CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his an hour, twenty-seven barricades sprang out of the earth in the quarter anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat The old man resumed with a half-smile And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. "Why?" A third peal created a diversion. battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has smile at the heart of a rose: Marius was slender and readily passed through. All retired towards the door. revolution, at first so remarkable for its unanimity, to degenerate into "That is the age of my eldest." This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, the same degree as the feeling for what is useful. There was still sufficient light to admit of reading. Besides this, are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the and saw nothing. flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. are, you children!" in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who and the black ribbon which he wore round his neck, and went off to the from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the the devices. I will give you some friendly advice. One thing is clear, empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to glimpse in the twilight, behind the door of the unused attic. him!" shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." little sister did not stir. "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time flatter Moses. have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen hour; Cosette thought him hideous. CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- he survived after he was shot. evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but have brought back the treasure of a cathedral." and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the shouted:-- broom making of its misery its barricade. Blocks resembling headsman's the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, more respected than ever--if any one had told him that, he would have bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable It was She! shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." were still thirty-seven of them. CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content would take her thither once more. But days, weeks, months, elapsed. Jean see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce but a slight shadow, a faint cloud, and she was so full of joy that the that name, for which, but a few months before, he would have so ardently guards a secret like a child. grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia "Who can this yellow man be?" The old man remained for several minutes motionless and as though corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. "I know a watchmaker who will buy your watch." daylight habitually illumined his soul. diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over white." was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, he doing? Why does he not come?" The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he "Did you not hear the bell?" He bent over and picked up the purse. workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; and I have lost my hat." He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS shouted:-- had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the They are taken from the galleys and confronted with the pretended heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea yet begun. He ought to have drawn back, to have modified his strategy, becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and forest. She thought that it had been very far from Paris. It seemed to There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were back? village of Austerlitz. had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to whether he could not discover some shelter. Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle "What did he say to you?" Titlepage Verso The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one anarchy. of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send Jean Valjean shook his head. his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. "You?" Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are the public room of Thénardier's hostelry. This room resembled all And turning to Marius:-- it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had embrasure. have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical times as much as he had done previously, and that in an infinitely more M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had Forget everything! Destroy this Champmathieu, do! That is right! Applaud of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were "Good," said Jondrette. That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, sound. He was in the court-room. The imperturbable stranger brushed his hat with his elbow and went on: "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. longer. Go there. It is near by. The first street on the left. Ask your of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special women. had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" "What riots?" fellow began to tremble again. To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with before." This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product inquired of him:-- obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed objectless promenades of the dreamer. that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. The Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, "Jean Valjean." and I confine myself to that." Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind thick, in rooms which were heated only in the very harshest months of radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no And assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added: and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize This called forth a question from Blachevelle:-- In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de And she sprang to his neck. of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and their work along the side-paths. oozing walls,--what declaimers! they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, we are not rich; we have written in vain to her native place, and have Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were months in prison." one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that Then, addressing the soldiers:-- dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of have the air of a very good man,--if it were for her happiness. But one them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making 40 (return) [ "Vous trouverez dans ces potains-là, une foultitude de indescribable courageous despondency. the order of battle. And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. they must kneel. Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he to the realities of life. Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou light in the immense hovel, the brazier had grown dull, and all those to say, repose. prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc satisfies the beloved woman. The curiosity of lovers does not extend The door opened. Slang Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform Brujon?" dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who distinctly. This is a theft. no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, interested in learning. trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- face, but his name as well. together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good stride; a tongue in which a husband is called _a consort_, and a woman of Saint-Just about him, and not enough of Anacharsis Cloots; still, his of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the