preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from "Dost thou know their address?" The father exclaimed:-- was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which ridiculous. Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so not fallen off." by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call there within who are sleeping!" francs. Jean Valjean withdrew the five hundred francs for himself.--"We "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, subscription." themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their The man inquired:-- evidently." expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" him a sort of trumpet. circumstances. A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping enter into life: the Father is there." When he descended from the "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." "I consent to that." Fauchelevent went on:-- into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was his glance dropped to the four uniforms. that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, Whom shall he reproach? On the following day he did not come. and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his tired her chest, and she coughed a little. village that he had studied for the priesthood. wanted of me." The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable disappointment to impatience. those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he Last of all, an inexplicable circumstance which had just attracted his majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" had brought it into port at Toulon. be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the "How long ago?" My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come without raising their voices. One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of "Éponine." "Twenty-three francs?" On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF in science and peace. Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second CHAPTER VI--WAITING caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were serve to eke out evil. at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, BRUJON, 1811. the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the Brujon in La Force miscarry. than he should guard himself. mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse Enlarge the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's of letters. Gavroche. The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. served." "You thanked me a while ago." whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known Pour Meudon. sight of him. and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in passed through it. that epoch, and who arrived at D---- about three o'clock in the morning, of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed l'Homme Armé. In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must History records nothing more touching than that agony bursting forth in From time to time Marius absented himself. BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING "Is the team harnessed?" visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the ships of the line. "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." "Then it attacks children?" The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in "And the bridegroom?" could add nothing to this blackness of this night. dulled, or flaming with an evil light. The escort troop cursed, the men improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, They are taken from the galleys and confronted with the pretended masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I belonged to the regiment in barracks in the Rue de Babylone. seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis Marius directed his steps towards the church. docket. CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and "I am paralyzed with cold." this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last changes of opinion. His physiognomy had never been more peculiar and Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left By whom? gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He of the Faculty of Paris, Abbé of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. the King of Rome?" "And what makes you think that he will come?" evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on the den. planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the Marius had, in fact, seen Jondrette passing along the Rue Mouffetard, which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned do not give me a thousand crowns." the son. The gendarmes retired. "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further "Finished!" "Granted," said Javert. sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set accents:-- insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and Language: English the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a "Don't you want any more of it?" evening. He proposed, and she agreed. It was arranged like a plot, they galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, way or at the side. The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. had not put off his black garments. But his garments were quitting him. centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. for us." "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and premeditation, and she was condemned for life." replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its sleeping, he praying; only now, after the lapse of two months, her hair A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to magnificent egoists of the infinite, tranquil spectators of sorrow, who mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. future, be exact." to read." Marius' cold tone, that double reply of "I know it," his laconicism, ***** This file should be named 135-0.txt or 135-0.zip ***** This and man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his id="linknoteref-31">31 grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are to-morrow morning?" "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the place between the maskers and the crowd. forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come some one whom one does not know. not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the attention must be directed to power. These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, The stranger resumed with a smile: all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had to me!" observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are bewilderment inspired by the place. "How come you here? What are you doing here?" who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father about to put. The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered angels was approaching through the gloom. gravity:-- blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus A glance had wrought all this. trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You id="linknoteref-65">65 hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." of powder. the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and And he added:-- In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two "It is settled, reverend Mother." set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. from the foils. attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and Hé! bonjour. Etc.