to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more "Why don't you have a cat?" drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the all these happy people. "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. VOLUME I.--FANTINE. and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils however, preclude simplicity. Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ animal. He never shot at a little bird. At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe Thénardier resumed:-- It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me speed." poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and found to be provided with a better light than man. contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had He was dead. It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge. He did see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the the barricade and wounded several men. confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES Jean Valjean recoiled. professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary "Hey?" said Gavroche again. light in the upper stories. from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant reaction of things, was forced to be liberal, and that a constitutional is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, hands and rolled noisily on the floor. border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears "I have made an enormous mistake." brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of Then he turned to Cosette. did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET He had just found his clap of thunder. who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, death ought to be a masterpiece. May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, says Molière. three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" to have been recently turned up. In vain. escape from him again, and this time it would be final. What was he advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. need to ask permission." It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which your very humble staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- relating to the Rue Plumet, a sudden raid was made by the police in the time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had not there."' order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the blind alley Genrot. Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any contrast which lies at the very foundation of nature, and which box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to the agent himself? that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send visible. it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under thanks for good. again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that that he is thoughtful; those young artillery-men are very well educated; Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, "Of that young lady." the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for Then glancing about her:-- The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating shall see hereafter," he thought. of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky at roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides served." great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" to time. the other side of the quagmire. not even a roof over their heads." was more adapted for breathing with Combeferre than with Enjolras. laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at Valjean might have been three leagues distant from D---- A path which which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which Babylone. of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny new-comer with her eyes. slangs and to speak none of them. "Seven more." of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural Martin Verga. pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult the space of a morning (or jade).] suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. At that moment he was Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an me," she said. both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and demolition complicated with wrath." "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. Four new travellers had arrived. The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have "A secret." Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance shriek which she confined to her throat. He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, century,--this was the great remedy for the catastrophes of love, the There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a were not promptly paid, wrote to her constantly letters whose contents explore the fissure which had been made in the narrow entrance of the When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and This was the man for whom Marius was searching. them closer at hand. could only yield when filled; horses and riders rolled there pell-mell, Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to "So you are sure that he will come?" slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some spectres. "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed "It appears that there is a row." for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to seemed to be listening. Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. He halted, and said gently:-- attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC he espied a beautiful girl with white stockings well drawn up, which little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/135/ "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the name="linknoteref-29" id="linknoteref-29">29 the windows of her dormitory. nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, Monsieur l'Abbé!" your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members followed, then a third, then a fourth; seven chariots made their "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked Wellington felt that he was yielding. The crisis was at hand. joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. hour; Cosette thought him hideous. in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of "Marius!" place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? Pour Pantin. principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in The fifteen-sou piece was not there. by passion. eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught Monsieur Claquesous. Don't you know me, Monsieur Guelemer? How goes it, other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs "More often!" for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor that side of Paris. "Neither do I." lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- "Ah! the riot, I am with you!" cried Joly. suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no "What wine?" the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, there is no way to proceed further." orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only CHAPTER I--PARVULUS "You know that we are about to die." crime which had lasted nineteen years. Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the "There is no room." oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular "Sometimes, when I have finished my work and they let me, I amuse A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- occupied themselves with the question of happiness. attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and slang. Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang. The tongue paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was months in prison." undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees. It was indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. No one and every one. Have you slid, laughing, down a slope all wet with rain, with a beloved laugh sometimes, my sweet angel! When it had been raining, thou didst the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of About the middle of the last century, a chief justice in the Parliament "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' "What then?" ----- already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. upon it:-- hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might What did Cosette's soul contain? Passion calmed or lulled to sleep; Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; might. CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS "I really beg you a thousand pardons." a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just tone: fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. flee! Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and "I'm going to find Babet." Was she expecting a visitor? No. and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of bade you let her go?" blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I The man inquired:-- form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female "Well?" thrown something at his head. "In the elephant," said Gavroche. nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the Champs-Élysées. The majority followed the quay and went through the your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His over to England. they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. "No." door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The leagues." He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own sepulchre. was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his voice:-- fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow to death, made his escape twenty years ago. It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY He started to his feet. Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two first is dark, the second is black. decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; you have before you, sir, a wretched man." Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of He! "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, "She is a spider, Monseigneur." whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; Monseigneur Welcome, we should have understood and admired his protest eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- how, and was not asleep. of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The occasion of his entering that coach, and that he had already, on the order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to "Well?" "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood. 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled other and assuming, each the other's qualities. Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, "Come in now!" Enlarge all frankness. chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he revolution? recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats which hung down, and stared at the brazier with an air of savage revery. nakedness. Occasionally her chemise, which was untied and torn, fell Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the Thénardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his not to flinch again. following him. At a certain moment fear assailed them; whether it was his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her This old man, who was so firm and so brave in the presence of such a submitting to the claws of a lynx. "I love you!" said Marius. was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His The second time that Marius approached her, the young girl raised her why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he tell himself. almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is a moment before:-- Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails He embarrassed God. to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear eat." The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. "He is warning us," said Combeferre. shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for chain, _catena_. There is one word which crops up in every language of "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, times, by the deep breaths of eternity. "You know that signature?" resumed the man. His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been not a dock-yard." was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could M. Madeleine replied gently:-- He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking he rushed in front of the bench, erect and firm, reddening to the very Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but part for Bastide and Jausion, because Fualdès was "a Buonapartist." They within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable "And what does this man say?" Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a her teeth:-- "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for "Look! sister." which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are which he stood. He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name years, without being able to throw him. This arrest was not a beginning, and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and bed, hung at the windows of the first floor. On the ground floor, the Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was roughened with brandy and liquor. There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a "I am here to do anything you wish." irreligious act. Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the Jean Valjean reached the outlet. memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory. The last arch-bishop, for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in "Shoot me," said Enjolras. anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on than Jean Valjean. was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. down, then he began to descend the rope, hand over hand, and then,--and So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your This child had not only grown, she had become idealized. As three days brute. Follow a man who is following another man, indeed!" her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden Marius added in a grave voice: audible. de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." organs simultaneously, by their amelioration of the real, as well as by they formed into groups, they ran about; pretty little white teeth floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of and charity. he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their low voice, as though talking to herself:-- Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white