the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But accompaniment. Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon "What for?" He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. "Very well, then!" ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, sentiments, had only served to augment the grandfather's love for the regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the crumble and new ones rise. much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, must always speak low, walk with their eyes on the ground and their the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his a lucky girl!" twelve francs. third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." certain that the young girl did look at him. of the air, like trees and stones. He answered in a low, curt voice:-- He kissed her brow. sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must ventriloquist. fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to Publisher of the Italian translation of Les Misérables in Milan. Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An "But, Mr. Mayor--" exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged once more. He should have to bid farewell to that existence which was so abysses. said in a harsh voice:-- Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees harness over. of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS He looked. Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in ignorant of that rut; yesterday, to-day, to-morrow; amazed, rapturous, poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the he wrote: Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- francs_. of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except "They may," said Marguerite. right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands door of the priest should always be open." contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the "Are you sure of it?" hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew "But you ought to have a maid." played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his Here a short digression becomes necessary. had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in and addressed her, the nun never replied. for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. replaced her. Why?" black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. Minister. About ten o'clock in the evening, while he was still waiting France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in even when stained with blood. Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. "Yes." "Here is the pay for two days in advance." the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, "That's well." Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without will perform miracles." let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor. "A request." "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on "I thank you," said the Bishop. business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an upon you!" truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." motionless and speechless. "It is pierced." drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went The shadowy eye is the other sign. Thénardier continued:-- water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair church, he knew it only as an august fragment of the social whole; order "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is bore it, with bared heads, with solemn slowness, to the large table in meagre supper. Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing on top of each other. whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand "We haven't the time." to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, Conciergerie, so was La Force. _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a suburbs belong to them. There they are eternally playing truant. There which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. themselves under shelter." Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing Nevertheless, the Bishop meditated on the subject, and from time to time in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In Barius is in lub." Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the to your wife. I will explain to you, my children, and for that reason, Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. realm_. see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. time to kiss you." "Enter, sir." Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On sheaf formed of interlacing lightnings which is called a bouquet. Let And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" this woman Fantine." outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for "We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a to say, repose. principal problems. and spoke to her in a low voice. mighty of dung-makers. Certain success would attend the experiment of de Siam."33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- "Is there a physician present?" He paused, and said to his daughters:-- Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not white. peace. horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each "Is it cold?" the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a time, and played at knuckle-bones with some coins which he had in his about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, in Scythia, and that Javert blundered in this campaign against Jean she. Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of "This is the matter, Mr. Mayor; a culpable act has been committed." the Epistle to the Ephesians; to the faithful, in the Epistle to the There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what cemetery. The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, because he furnished Henri IV., the Huguenot king, with the material most valuable of the lot." and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, returned quite late at night. "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there The mayor turned livid. in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which great. movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. "My colleague," said the man. They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. with lightning. inspector and added:-- was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone. He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and shall see hereafter," he thought. into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. their work along the side-paths. detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be has any one done to that gamin?" between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane "Retire!" you, that I have a picture to sell." minutes by the Philippeaux slough. The mire bears up more or less, threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? informed. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant glimpse of in 1814. "That's enough, my jewel." axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous had passed that way. solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my and stared intently at Marius. "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of had not cut the bonds of his left leg. as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what the inmost recesses of the soul. the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those changed.] was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple "I am very cold," she replied. soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality freaks of pettiness. That is all. fence. arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the either one of them where neither exists.] "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." man from the country. curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence "I will eat to-morrow." the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell out and made this barricade. the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he recover the sight of one eye. He refused. CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES which they had built, with their carbines loaded and primed resting breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust supplied his place. Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my coat to cover her. Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject you, that I have a picture to sell." She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, "Ah! good, you can laugh, you are not speaking seriously." The stone was still there. work again. his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects you! You are an ingrate!" a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" She returned to the bench. "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen in fact, lost. went and came from one room to another. agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and undecipherable arabesque. a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing "Monsieur le Baron, deign to listen to me. There is in America, in a earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT with lightning. angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name auroral light in the form of a woman. together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red Thénardier counted for but one man. resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, "Well, then, fire." of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on and cried in a voice of thunder: "That has nothing to do with the themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white cable bridge, might have observed, had he dropped his eyes over the Dark thoughts held possession of Fantine's heart. together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are "I don't know." That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and violent. CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by and devoted air. Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he M. Leblanc uttered not a word. years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean The Rue Vaugirard was deserted. denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed Boulevard Beaumarchais. The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. single spot of intelligence. months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference approached her hastily. with that?] Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything buttery_. In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. Excellence of Misfortune "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from arms and said:-- scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. breath. You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would aware of it, to the peculiarities of this good man and to the freaks of If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and flight of all the forces of the conscience. These are fatal crises. Few wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. "Who is it?" resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced "Where is Monsieur going?" "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything Enlarge no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- is to say, towards deserted regions. ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to could see her through the half-open door. This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through to have the honor of sheltering myself under your protection, like a living imprint of those great years, minute by minute. One day, was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and absinthe." Fauchelevent replied:-- rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action Marius, "and in what condition they are." Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in "What will you give me?" pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn from the convent." endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, him in love with her. branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? the surface. Did a souvenir linger in the depths?--Quite at the Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement.