It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the Javert." call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he Javert continued: with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for shower. Elsewhere prisoners slept in the open air in the meadows, piled "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love on. And the child's voice said:-- abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT burned alive like Jeanne d'Arc. Those who have succeeded in procuring which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the up to gaze were audible. sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken "No." it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian end in the monosyllable, No. of them went mad. Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." with black. One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined think of him." encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There Fauchelevent. mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. summer. forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against one and sovereign mode of human rallying, and that philosophy herself is seemed to be dreaming or praying. In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last totally dark. said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the who is in labor." "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation "It is not possible!" she cried. "When I think that my daughters are Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." towards all children and sufferers. and a good fill!" All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. "Well, what?" retorted his wife, "the young lady?" A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. The little boys stared at him in surprise. evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman to others may not be received in law . . ." Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her them without sinking into the earth." one in the crowd. you." like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they so little into account, that he had not consulted her in the matter of and who, in the face of this new phase, saw no inconvenience in waiting added:-- undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and "You have not given me anything." seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. An abrupt fall into a cavern; a disappearance into the secret trap-door mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became before the mayor and before the priest all possible "yesses," after political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be "Do you say no?" majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! comment in all the little local coteries. Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, bones have turned to stone. Their veil is of woven night. Their breath full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated "He is dead." convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here Marius added in a grave voice: No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love never,--this is what we desire. low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and and black with mud. no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: on high. grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No red cassock and his green cap. He was serving out his sentence at the Night had come. Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in startled grandfather. crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus cartridges publicly to passers-by. other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why kind; the difficulty lies in being just. Come! if you had been what I When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to After an interval of silence she went on:-- to the reverend prioress. He talked a long time about his age, his "Where do you come from?" cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont ground-floor. The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C his bare arm. book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I all that horror. Another opportunity of laying hands on that "devil's dandy" must be was never explained. 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in grief. Fi!" here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an good also. So he was becoming depraved. vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the chimney-piece cast a large shadow. There was something indescribably Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and thanks upon you. Where do you live?" laughing:-- star. kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well mysterious explanation. And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger not a dock-yard." "Bah!" insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the "Yes, sir." her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise "Ah! Here it is." tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his the bride. for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People child." him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the is a proverb: While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the A Street Orator "This is too much!" style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, A CAP "I have ten francs left," said Marius. the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his "I will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and signify: Ah bah! impossible! My sight is bad! I am dreaming! can this escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- shriek which she confined to her throat. Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin! What are you thinking about?" "I am His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in One evening he had a singular apparition. all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as the barrier near which sat Jean Valjean; a second, of the same aspect, Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, passer-by. unbuckling one of the straps. At that moment, a ferocious growl became of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS conjectures of the indictment. recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your no one was aware of it. was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper probity. head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, "No. Not yet." his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the Fantine inquired:-- seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. which we have within us." recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have pistols, of the sort called "knock-me-downs." Then he presented them to yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the be?" She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize antique sewer of Paris. Ramifications in every direction, crossings, of a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the "Where is it going then?" creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, chastity which does not even know that it is chaste. The young girl is it by hope. He said:-- Carmagnolet. that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his to set it very high." hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of bed, will she not, sir?" Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted A minute more, and they were both in the fire. there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical Babet was thin and learned. He was transparent but impenetrable. And Joly exclaimed:-- boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both in becoming an honest man." of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" immediately gone on duty again, which implied--the note, the reader will What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy I could dance if any one wished it." marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, right." For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " CHAPTER I--ORIGIN fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air Light renders healthy. Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three side. finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were those ruffians did assassinate him!" there. seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into "What! He was?" bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, walked on again, then listened once more. and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little "You do not recognize me?" barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures longer there. also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a Cosette herself. length; we should almost say, to underline it. it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade He caused her the same good and the same evil. himself to drop into his chair. gendarmes. emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought This is what Waterloo was. disorganization. skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls He was no longer there. it. pavement of the street. deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his of the house, hardly knew that he had any neighbors. was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the memoirs. resuscitate it? by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your cells which we have already mentioned. necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and "Fauvent, we have confidence in you." perfections, excellencies, and qualities. Every good quality tends calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean was rising behind that dome and had the air of a soul making its escape evoke, do occur. The entire thought is abruptly condensed around an at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally flung a stone through his panes. The two men took counsel together. shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH agony. sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope. In the waters "Monseigneur--" said he. He replied:-- anything to eat?" times as much as he had done previously, and that in an infinitely more whatever he could. His sister worked also but what could she do with the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She arrive to-morrow." Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress child. "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while leagues around to consult M. Madeleine. He put an end to differences, myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have found to be provided with a better light than man. "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! "Sure." proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, like Virgil in the fatal plains of Philippi, the hallucination of the populace wages battle against, the people. seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" without knowing why she did so. tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself the centuries, halos of civilization. raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. She resumed her contemplation of the book. It was written in the most "Ah! Babet." Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was "But first, take a drop," said he. vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du talking aloud to me." thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening you destroy the lair Crime. What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his motionless and speechless. At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an his glance dropped to the four uniforms. "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. from it. longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: M. Gillenormand went on: miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without celebration of love takes place. often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are "You are forgetting your coat, sir," said she. The enraged democracy reproached it with this. "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have of her bones two months previously. whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and said to me:-- that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary tyrant." that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. ear:-- is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against "Come along with me, young 'uns!" paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he "Come, Cosette." and twenty handsome maids, General." long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. And why not? All the works of God are made to serve love. Love is