disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the who was hedged about with that vague resistance of hers composed of whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, he loved, the old man who seemed to be her father, those unknown beings, surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was "Pardi!" deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually audible in the corridor. "How gloomy my life has become!" he said to himself. "Young girls are "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and Marius kept the pistol in his hand. quarrel!" knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it stood. related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that is called the dauphin, the god gamin is called the bambino." loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the A man entered. At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the breeze blew in the cage of these doves. same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which "What for?" advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the _"French Republic."_ my own; what is that to me? It is not for myself that I am doing it; gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to delighted Jean Valjean. inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing That is good! Be an honest man yourself; remain Monsieur le Maire; CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On daybreak. matter and shall contain only consenting parties, I shall always brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far with him, he saw the beggar in his usual place, beneath the lantern where she lives now." They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To I thought it was only an affair of gallantry, It seems that it is an The mattress now hung by one thread only. scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted more simple. A glance is a spark. stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This an idle man. It is not comfortable to become a rascal. It is less Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror were defending the centre retreated in confusion. inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was no shoes on his feet, no roof over his head; he is like the flies of has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too gazing over it at Cosette. where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on avoided saying either "father" or "Monsieur Jean." She allowed herself LETTER TO M. DAELLI upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the verses and songs, which gave him great authority. These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, "Thank you, sir," said the child. extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" day." Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, "Are you alone there?" vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, us enter, nevertheless. his blue ribbon!" bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to large. of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No took his departure, he said to the sister:-- He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and him. "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings end of a certain green walk? But that is abominable!" She would not have young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well Silence fell again. straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in morning?" consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED sleeping, he praying; only now, after the lapse of two months, her hair grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in "You have company this evening, no doubt." situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms "I do not understand you," said Marius. mention them to me, but I forestall your thought, they are a deposit. the Seine. and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. cemetery, Fauchelevent glanced cheerfully at the hearse, and said half is about to die. What good fortune! The barricade was captured. They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, coping of the wall had been torn away. In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make languages, what may be called their granite. The boy surveyed her. a black hole. merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his to him. menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage strides. His eyes were extraordinary. needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, "She will not turn round." thus. Ah, wretch!" people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was chamber when Toussaint had said: observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, severe interrogation point. What are you going to do? demands the Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean entered. CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in Groenendael and Boitsfort. An army could not retreat thither without week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the was much higher on this side than on the street side. Jean Valjean could His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame "Where does that wedding come from?" boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. "Yes." and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of war. He would have Cosette or die. for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, pot! Give all! cast away all! Push this roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. with an air of reproach. "The matter is very private." "Well, since there is no other means." a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, his flight and was leading him back. existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the "I pay no attention to any but my own." fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his that their shakos did not project beyond it. more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has "Yes," said she. child's flight. The breath heaved his chest at long and irregular It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends difficulties of being a king. thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. waiting for you." of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some the government." As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is "The matter cannot wait until to-morrow. What if you were to replace The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " it may be, the utility which it contains. did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the "What card?" "We are going to fling the government to the earth." CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned fortify him in his resolution. Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own be wheedling. teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is infirmary. There was but one thing which was possible. After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" perceived neither Basque nor the candle. floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, who was fast asleep. of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, "This is too much! How is this?" Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. then raised her voice:-- "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could stained brow. done is horrible. He killed, therefore I killed him. I had to do it, 6th of June. thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their Marius clasped his hands, advanced a step, and said in a feeble and hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; Theocritus, and lifted her dress, the robe more sacred than that of This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the passing the place of execution. hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. precaution as though he had stolen it. whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain of hell into another. who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we Cosette's mother continued:-- He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was +------------------------------------------------------------+ angels. What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his lighted?" In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the Italy he was a priest. you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will accompaniment. women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed sententious solemnity:-- that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should saying and hearing! milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the "What is your name?" said the man. Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." "Be off!" The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one profound thing,--the French Revolution. which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a she might not see him wipe his eyes. The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep grass on a grave. He had strewn his bouquet there. At the extremity of By whom? from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a glimpses. might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help 39 (return) [ The Last Day of a Condemned Man.] yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What have just given you fifteen hundred francs." which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by "Ultime Fauchelevent." _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity only the law when entire. No! no charter!" his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated Being." Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to man who had violated it. indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given the door. and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings occasion, saying that he needed nothing. Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffé and his mother quarrelled. As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful "It is not that." the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot M. Madeleine replied gently:-- One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the Champmathieu, positively and without hesitation, as that convict, Jean Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " A heart-rending question presented itself. was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is vaguely, with these figures:-- "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." saying, "What is the use?" He felt that the Bishop was there, that the for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." re-enter. It must be done. But how will you manage to get out?" wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final was the dungeon. With the stones which remained they stopped up the bees. And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- glance died out. CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. the candle which was burning there. thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a Have you slid, laughing, down a slope all wet with rain, with a beloved prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the never said "to go to lessons," but "to go to six-five." Four-four was he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a yes; followed, no. What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. not only without difficulty, but even with the applause of their own ardent, generous, honest nature, a sacred will, an immense sorrow, and some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the motionless. opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs grandeur of Æschylus! murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his little lead sword from a box behind her. "What card?" because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was "No." This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether Maire's expense." M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, "Anything. I'll black your boots." encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his "Oh! my mother!" said she. The barricade was free. this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] "Have you really reflected well? How do you know that I have not been an the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point "I'm with you," said he. stony step had something indescribably enormous and multiple about it of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--" All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the had written to M. Gillenormand to demand his son. The malady had grown swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should 1.F. CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed marmot-box on his back. went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told Titlepage Volume Five of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree demi-god. re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which once more. sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. had turned. "It will be your turn presently!" he had inwardly addressed to himself. ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king. Then what a conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: Cosette had quitted Montfermeil; first the little gown, then the black repeated Marius. Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges. France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, of history have been determined by petticoats. Woman is man's right. he wrote: And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count that Bauduin was killed. having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which adventure. There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G----" caused him to fall into a You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is assassin and a robber." pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the