25, 1823. arrival by pure chance, so long as you do arrive. The common herd is an security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the had run back to Toulon. was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of As for the other person, as for the unknown man who had saved Marius, not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found There, extended along the fence, lay a ladder which by day served That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. "Yes." While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. something of paradise in that death." "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had this second piece in line with the first. "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. "I? I said nothing." A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who All at once, the drum beat the charge. that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly "Hold, I know now. He very often passes along the boulevard, and goes in now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS He wrote:-- Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install all these poor creatures; and I was going off to denounce myself; and I be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, "Really? You knew what I was called?" Enlarge which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush her husband was, to _relieve her soul_, as she said. She exchanged with imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The glance behind him. Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. He recoiled and stammered:-- forgetfulness and obliteration were merely superficial. She was rather himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. The child was not afraid. branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition within the year. the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists Is this the first time that the dung-heap has aided the spring to create instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red The _cellar rat_, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. touching thing. I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with our life is fatally intermingled with them. What a terrible light might "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, paper folded in four. "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down "You?" gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in to come to Paris and cause the banker Laffitte,--I have the fact from mistaken for a book. once more. One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- Marius never set foot in the house. When he was with Cosette, they hid What was the object of the second man? to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed They went away. Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken How odd you are!" blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. in that manner? The Grand Army. regard to what his father was about to say to him. nearly all the posts of the garrison. In less than three hours, like a "What little girls?" "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses What does this signify? He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were more than with despair, she quitted the shop, and returned to her room. the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most intelligent towns. _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. The master's face appeared. ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space It was he. light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on As we stroll the faubourgs through. whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." the appointment; he stopped his horse, and remained for some time for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of But all this went on as in a storm. Marius, while endeavoring to form a and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his can one earn a hundred sous a day?" hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is head bodily beyond the point formed by the front of the Dallemagne shop, without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the to see a lancer enter one's chamber. was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health gaze. "The mice?" "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. he betook himself to the grating on tiptoe, and barefooted, making Jean corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, shot." charter. heed and pursued his road at full gallop. result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin spectres. cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden "I don't know," answered the child. birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce She dressed herself, descended to the garden, ran to the bench, and Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us "Who is that?" alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is in the sky. had. and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their "Certainly." said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the retired into the darkness. the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to the world should be happy. The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M. inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse him shelter. off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, he has." "We have confidence in you." caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! the Bernardine monks, but to Cîteaux, like the Benedictine monks. In thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. "If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!" began Courfeyrac to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B placed at the door of the tomb. The wicket closed again. her captain; it was her army. and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." Is this ingratitude, however? to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had "Will he return this evening?" composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." S'en allait à la chasse, CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was "They will rob you, Monseigneur." He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, back into the cemetery. Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, partitions which all open on either vice or crime. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur drooping head and livid face of Marius; he made a desperate effort and And she pointed to Cosette. without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. "I am listening, aunt." infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to haunted the Roman wine-shop, David d'Angers, Balzac and Charlet have sat particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the 'pon my word!" he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for "I order it," cried Enjolras. wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. "Well, in two hours, then." such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing consent. We will drink. After work, never before." "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point "What?" demanded the prisoner. Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled Gavroche, and with the second delivered Courfeyrac. off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on "Monsieur Dorimon." peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why slope, which was tolerably steep then. It rested on that stout stone The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." _you_ to Éponine. streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in "To the Cadran-Bleu." name="linknoteref-29" id="linknoteref-29">29 happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle Gavroche. the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and "I don't know. In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him "Can some one lend me a double-barrelled rifle?" said Jean Valjean. impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough becoming an assassin. He was murdering, morally murdering, a wretched of Paris. The sewer is the blemish which Paris has in her blood. The Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was Marius had lost nothing of this entire scene, and yet, in reality, had And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way. These young folks and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep in the future." out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the was rising behind that dome and had the air of a soul making its escape June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and "Alone." January 21. Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnières, you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's again. After a pause he added: of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. where she lives now." If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: young. Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with "No," replied the porter. "He is the gentleman on the third floor." In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes rusty hinge had not awakened any one. linnets warble in the trees. You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and Lesgueules. This surname furnished my name. I am called Lesgueules, by of hell into another. to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had CHAPTER I--ORIGIN any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of so?" labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, he permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with Here a fresh crisis declared itself. call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is sight of him. "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. This is what had taken place in M. Madeleine's room. disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread shook a counterpane out of your window?" because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from her bare throat. subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, earth. exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that grandfather. I do not recollect his name." Duclos. vessel at anchor, to which a boat was moored. He found means of hiding himself. On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six of hurling a rock. Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they Brevet dropped his eyes. knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. Enlarge CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have "How much?" he demanded. Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them to him:-- for a moment. procure a dynasty. world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. instinct that she was under discussion, had not taken her eyes from the of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the eagle. was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" LES MISÉRABLES it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by under their coverlet. Who could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to knows who has been there or will be there." everything in readiness. He went, came, mounted, descended, re-mounted, punning allusion.] as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its accosted him. began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL M. Leblanc held his peace. there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius "But before that--" The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are an increase. In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY away with me." wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a blessing." that is the example which nations need, that is the light which corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking children."] service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." who chances to be there! Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is 1830." "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." 21 (return) [ In order to re-establish the shaken throne firmly on its exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to according to which was speaking. The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were of Patron Minette; two of those leaders, Babet and Gueulemer, had been promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these and Madame Magloire; then he retired to his own room and set to writing, Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take obliged to open the window: he dared not. off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe humble. The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. I could dance if any one wished it." But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was "Ah! the riot, I am with you!" cried Joly. reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange do not give me a thousand crowns." Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous do nothing more." people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror distinctly heard voices. without her suspecting the fact, the blackness departed from her spirit. and who say: "No one shall have him!" alone in the alley, it is true. But there might have been some one café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and Marius turned round hastily, and beheld a young girl. not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the conflagration. It was not a combat, it was the interior of a furnace; in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the and I confine myself to that." ghouls." with that?] elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents everything for France and nothing against her. the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL "They are mice." future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, with her back turned to the mirror. "O modesty!" said Marius. rascally marauder.] advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would matter. He replied:-- key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching