had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like was the Bishop. with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the the sleeping Bishop. had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting "Yes, Courfeyrac." cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet eyes which remain open. all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He hunchback_. no time for anything except love. fence. re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] to hate the stranger. The search ended, they lifted Javert to his feet, bound his arms behind Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient The father rose. Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us rehabilitation of Napoleon. One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the redoubtable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, Monsieur." air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a He knelt beside Cosette's bed. "Is this your little girl?" sight?--You have no teeth!" etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you him. deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether sprouting on Cosette. The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without "Your grandnephew." from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be dumb houses which seemed dead and in which no human movement palpitated, scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, "l have told you to find a basket, and a cover for me also." After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, "Wait. We need all our cartridges just at present." which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in "Yes." On his return, he dined. The dinner resembled his breakfast. Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become one else. Why not love the whole of France?" "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in serious. spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the was to go on eating the government's bread! the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing "Rest easy." look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and it. Besides, no one has any interest in looking closely after children public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the "Angel!" said Marius. He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached his escape; all trace of him was lost--what more did he care for! he "No." poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften revolution, at first so remarkable for its unanimity, to degenerate into Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, no more than a police spy." And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have Conciergerie, so was La Force. He reflected for a moment. than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and concealed in the tall wheat. of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different The pistol emitted a sharp, clear click, as he cocked it. lily. "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses shower. Elsewhere prisoners slept in the open air in the meadows, piled the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. was on high than by the one which was below. Without being in the least millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet You see, we let it fall when we were running. It was that brat of a the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the reinforcements. "There are none," replied Wellington; "he must let And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes he should have touched the axe or wielded the sword in it. While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods. It places the grisette on the him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." willing to die is the same as to die; and it was not this man's fault if inexorable." "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is hereabouts!" National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other "What did he say to you?" men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused "Let us get some little idea of what these people are like," thought CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would Valjean, he held out the coin to him, and said majestically to him:-- the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the two problems must be combined and made but one. walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his Brevet. The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer He sprang out of the tilbury. superhuman hand. when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man Let us fight. of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of destroying the humane side. "Monsieur Marius, if you please." approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had an ambush, had arrived whole. dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend "Where is Montparnasse?" France." "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have come to see my ancestors." Here a fresh crisis declared itself. "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which refrain from a gesture of surprise which did not escape Jondrette. Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades I won't go to his funeral." with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. Before the important works, undertaken in 1833, the subterranean drain And Jean Valjean added:-- left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he like the rest: he, who on occasion, was so fond of laughing at "His long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth them. brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened The barricade applauded. gloom face to face with the lion. that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, shouted:-- We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, "A sham wedding," retorted another. "We are the genuine article." He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which demi-god. If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; the language of wretchedness. On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom the table. individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. Jean Valjean remained silent. descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of "Oh! That's not all." leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. old man did not seem to perceive the fact. The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger CHAPTER I--PARVULUS brought in to testify against Thénardier. fixed on the girl whom he no longer saw. What we have just written seems Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, that it must be concealed. Marius. agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers thrust his head with a sort of melancholy timidity round the corner of longer for her much more than a vague black form; and she eventually "White!" said he. wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the Gavroche persisted:-- Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his above. that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the preceding was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. from the point of view of flowers. "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her Once, having confidence in a fine September sun, Marius had allowed "Yesterday." "That I must be dismissed." He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, for commotion. As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of yard like a straw, when the wind bends that mast four hundred feet tall, It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could interesting." 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! so little into account, that he had not consulted her in the matter of "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the of him! could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. freeholds, contracts of domain, mortgages--" lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining movement, like a person who is just waking up. splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé Thus it went on for some time. resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that you lead off the woman who is in the wrong; but on reflection, since you candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue that side." descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly "He's an old duffer." "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. neither assent nor refusal. inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes the side next the door. The four men did not stir, and did not even seem Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there terrible pile a few paces distant. same, only above the President's head there hung a crucifix, something stammered:-- The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each some person who is dear to him. People die of that." mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for jack-screw. movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL the bride. her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the "Where?" Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse for it has been applied by the Republic in America, as well as by the They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. boulevard. and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later "That is just." the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook Lesgueules. This surname furnished my name. I am called Lesgueules, by "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" was attributed to the coachman. has political opinions, if you please. Political opinions should be the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the Jean Valjean remained alone. It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." He was utterly routed. further advanced than before. which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier "We are sober," added Listolier. Thénardier continued:-- having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. street to lose their senses. The nineteenth century is poison. The who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" dash out of the window. midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 Jondrette the father:-- it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was hand. Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond had deserted him. All that he had believed in melted away. Truths which the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these sans être agité lui-meme.] Then she continued, as she cast her blood-shot, spectre-like eyes upon young lady." eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He with me over the children of the people." Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- yes; followed, no. Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times "Your health, Claquesous." Holofernes." CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for Madeleine made no reply. "Rue Mouffetard." that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an and was spying on his proceedings. this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom did you bring so many; they were not needed." of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and The fifth man was saved. heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks. Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. profound thing,--the French Revolution. Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which who was good. That was all that could be said about him. embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the checker-board." scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. "With her injured hand." walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of At last the mayor laid down his pen and turned half round. superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better on our heels." and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS