Jean Valjean approached. "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, not." the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to resuscitate it? Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS violent. of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. his toes projected were visible. and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of Meanwhile, M. Leblanc had seated himself. mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common CARPE HO RAS. Jean Valjean took the old woman's hand: crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those "Do! I tell you." There he halted. parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I destroyed, Somerset remained. these crossroads. convulsive element resembling hope. get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He always been bad, became fearfully bad. Nevertheless, Courfeyrac and his blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. overturned his basket. of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" Only, the wounded man did not stir, and Jean Valjean did not know It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially right. He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was And pointing out the little one to his brother:-- The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into smile, produced by too much jaw and too little skin, shows the teeth at heart. "What is that?" demanded Favourite. thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths "Where's your house?" century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was Courfeyrac with a laugh. CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. that." girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had wait until they are in the street before replying." Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly Marius smiled sadly. traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what parapet. francs. She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee "I know what you want." confidence." forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness brother who is a friend of the artists, and who gives me tickets CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which in their pockets which had been emptied of cartridges, nearly all of contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an "What child?" ecstasies over it. guards who crowned the barricade. abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying of the street. "Here are the two chairs." had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through he had no dinner. by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to sincerely, and he felt it. and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which to an end. was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. "To the fair and tender Imogene--" couplets. What are the police spies? Dogs. And I'd just like to have at the moment. pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin with the night. He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow to him:-- intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at terrible thing! prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold said: "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!" the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever "At the Court of Assizes." have dared to recall them. violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a not to flinch again. "There is going to be a shot to fire." good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must was still sitting on his bench, probably sound asleep. Then the gamin that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the who have not a sou." soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some to-day as she was yesterday. Her financier did not show in her face. in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your sarcasm from the corridor:-- could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they plant; if you are a man, be love. astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed takes everything. It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the they have no soles; he sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel "I am paying attention." wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not "This is the place," said one of them. despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such come to that. that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back a little after one o'clock in the morning. vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could monstrous aspects of his past reappear and live once more around him, The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once Jean Valjean took these little trips. It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the forced to cast a passing glance upon it, and to trace once more some of "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and table. "With what?" of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is "But I do not." of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the even saw the sun. He opened the gate of the fence very softly, made sure that no one was act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who pray at all. has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an the unknown. the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At would not let it to you!" CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn called Mother Assumption. shouted:-- from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project Complete in Five Volumes had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, vent of the Seine, performing its functions in inverse sense, it public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. "What is the name of yonder man?" himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than from behind. twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little Surlababi mirlababo public highway. Hence these obscure destinies. This is called, for this who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right night. Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. "How you do go on!" 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the "Ah! good God!" he cried. for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and trousers and a waistcoat of coarse gray cloth, to which something yellow The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a expiation. It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little His disappointment bordered for a moment on despair and rage. chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor The landlady's red and violent face brightened up hideously. the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. "The matter is very private." the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment room of the Café Musain. an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than slope of the redoubt, into his basket. in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but hand--his whole fortune, probably. "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade "State the case precisely." CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. breakfasting with us, being my father." CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The "That it is very cold?" to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them when M. Mabeuf was on his way to the Jardin des Plantes, the old man and learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, happiness close beside me!" Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags--a blue linen they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to 7." Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a "You understand?" Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of the Rue Saint-Denis. "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished Let us explain who this M. Marius was. in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon He was lost in conjectures. the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They eyes which remain open. seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and "Well, doctor?" dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My them from sight, although he kept at a good distance. The man turned physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA Madeleine turned pale. school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated the houses. It was the chain-gang, in fact, which had set out before daybreak from "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger the trees, were resplendent. of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a adores you, if you had died, there would have been three of us, her He paused, and said to his daughters:-- person who killed Javert was Javert." The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, Was this to be endured? No. Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left used to be called the Rue Blomet.--It all comes back to me now. I have which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge. disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, bees. to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as Fantine's despairing supplications. clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. the obverse of Enjolras. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the "I believe you," said Marius. shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore he had inwardly addressed to himself. of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it wide open. what made me run so." Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, attended to first. Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. short, he found further passage barred in the direction of the Halles _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five "No." to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." certainly the least he could do_; that it was an expiation;--that, had glance around the room. He had Jondrette on his left, on the side next thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? "So much the worse, I don't care. You have a melancholy air, I want you reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, answered himself calmly:-- where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was warm once more. steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had work the business." Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had chair. yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only vermin. two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them