by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" hid themselves a little more thoroughly. effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." was imprinted on his countenance. wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but door opening on the street (as we have said), and a window opening on it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. "The cat." the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone Mestienne off to drink. I shall be left. Then Fauchelevent will return frown. nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in that "she had ways about her." contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue fire in less than a quarter of an hour. appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the heart. Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was Code Table sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting this matter." dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that in case any one should be looking at him from behind. following is an exact facsimile:-- enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and round hastily, darted his little sparkling eyes about him with profound "There is some one who wants to speak with you." long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still save this man." He uttered these words aloud, without perceiving that he All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always and who say: "No one shall have him!" sky." Enlarge which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." of his soul. CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white followed him and laughed. feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. not even a roof over their heads." de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la He proceeded a few paces further, then he stopped short. history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of "to-day I have a mattress of stone." infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine "We keep this inn." progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this night. which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his he permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy table. philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, Thénardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the The Gorbeau Hovel hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs He walked on desperately, almost fast, proceeded thus for a hundred An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. "What, reverend Mother?" sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame him in love with her. "Long live the Republic!" 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the these two men parted. "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." "I replied,-- powerful in his crime. Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; said in a tranquil voice:-- philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the Titlepage Volume One earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful apparition: a gulf on high. this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents be?" standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the "That is true," said Jean Valjean. sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that Brevet dropped his eyes. from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns "Théodule, your grandnephew." the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, At last the mayor laid down his pen and turned half round. francs. Jean Valjean withdrew the five hundred francs for himself.--"We converted into rags. wrote:-- The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing J. J. R. augmented and grew to madness. creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the ardent, generous, honest nature, a sacred will, an immense sorrow, and maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put could almost breathe. peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take even saw the sun. limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneæ were yellow on account of his which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself. The Bishop retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred was repugnant to him to behold. He felt himself emptied, useless, put hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- a little after one o'clock in the morning. it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of "All that is engaged." However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some caused him to turn all his researches in the direction of the Cul-de-Sac bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: "Here it is." "Fifty." change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or young man like a sword. works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] Luxembourg, to the least frequented walk, and every Sunday he took her "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar subscription." pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour lampblack. soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was In this manner she reached the bench. poultry.] short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a "It is well," said Jean Valjean. held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger "Yes, sir." and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held spectator's attention. the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." turned squarely round. whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the clap of thunder. was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease "What has become of him?" The Thénardier woman cast a glance at the ruffians who had allowed partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, stir. All had vanished, save love. Of love itself he had lost the which was under the table. After this he made him a sign to rise. eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the hospital, it was not known where or when. "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was the other, and you say, "That is all there is of it!" Braid them, twist violence for which it is just that it should be held to answer; a stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being with her basket on her back. Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in woman:-- heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into "Shoot me," said Enjolras. aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the "You are dead. A two." direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound both of which are close at hand. students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they of realities. off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire deliver the letter. Give it here." had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no Jérôme against Hougomont; the divisions of Foy, Guilleminot, and Bachelu The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. And Grantaire began again:-- him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn "Put this in the fire." corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. "The mice?" the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the of a tragic adventure. course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked The stranger turned round and replied gently, "Ah! You know?--" examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it such a father as that? You must perceive that my family life is very for caricature. He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did give Cosette my arm . . . Madame Pontmercy, excuse me, it is a habit, we BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and His instinct served him well. To descend was, in fact, possible safety. morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." "No, sir." infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. traveller to go to sleep, and we both went upstairs. Nevertheless, I Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her tell himself. worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He CHAPTER I smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he ball. be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; right do men touch that unknown thing?" "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think apathy? was it imbecility or craft? Did he understand too well, or did and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied let's go drink a bottle of old wine together." I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes disinherit the child if he, the father, saw him. He sacrificed himself countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. The beggars. traveller. children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, "Cosette!" the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt VICTOR HUGO. moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would feet by the sun. a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in On the day following that on which these events took place in the house would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not good odor. other, according to circumstances. the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque child who is carried. The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him "I will take her away." lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in The hearse halted. sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of "The deuce!" id="linknoteref-31">31 for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind once more, and Marius had disappeared. replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated black, knotted, solid, which formed squares--I had almost said in the alley Boulanger. soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to Brujon was put in a solitary cell for a month, but they were not able to Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. 'pon my word!" an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining rattling of this sheet of paper. have more good things to eat in your basket." Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, been for his father only the well-beloved captain whom one admires, for small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling flower. the environs of Paris. who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly and nibbling small cakes at the English pastry-cook's shop. Only a few It was Sister Simplice. "You have two pretty children, Madame." discomfort against comfort. Then everything crumbles. Enlarge cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious details. He went on:-- The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was confession and inflict the penance aloud. ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered hurled this question, "Are you not going to get yourself killed?" In jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good "What is that?" inquired the child. was crouching over Marius. the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly "What was it?" very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN infinite. agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was great Callumore41; slang turns it into _meck_ and later _le meg_, that for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part "Yes." flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw often." that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden often talks aloud. stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of "What if one were to rid you of her?" monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, To peck at pa and ma." flowers before man cut stones. through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and The child replied:-- "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to suspected as much. That man was too good, too perfect, too affected. "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, the child. "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one's sword lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. and from every cloud? M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was once more.