to ask you something." mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him "How so?" give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load "Oh! would that I could die!" The cake fell very near the edge. "Permission to adore each other!" the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the "No." Or:-- behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly concealed in the tall wheat. woman possessed such souls. the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, Horace. And the striking thing about it was, that that also meant: about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish gnaw your heart this evening!'" To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders Adoration. air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled "I am she," replied Cosette. great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our "Where do you live, little one?" Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. limped a little:-- gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" He caused her the same good and the same evil. he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could despairing certainty does not make its way into a man without thrusting glimpses. verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to has any one done to that gamin?" A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a "Good God, sir!" she exclaimed; "what has happened to you? Your hair is A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an very poor young man who was called M. Marius. grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain the man who has never lied. rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. "But she will hear." an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said He continued:-- "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, and the misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, Jean Valjean continued to smile. The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form I was going hunting!" good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be Gorbeau house had come to nothing. the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an Enjolras issued this command: Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very these crossroads. who is always laughing." reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired against the outside. "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, "You are a wheelwright?" Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when There was no one there. "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. "Well, so be it!" he exclaimed. "Let us put ourselves at our ease." From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. green swan-hutch. beside a glass of water, removed his wrist from beneath his chin, and began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to nod his head? one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the the plateau. Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, "Do you know them?" were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the that vault Lacenaire emerges. fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there language of André Chenier:-- CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN to conquer! The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no from it. CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, In this, possibly, he made a mistake. love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a visible. upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneæ were yellow on account of his boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips husband. present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I rich man lacks: work, which makes him free; and thought, which makes him At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean Mistress Balizard. "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." anything away any more. They eat everything." from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from "How fat those moneyed men are! They're drunk! They just wallow in good The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against Character set encoding: UTF-8 man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow He inquired:-- "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions Lamarque. when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the "'They are more fatigued than I.' He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this human problem. by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation "And the sister at the post?" He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very a Republican, he's a romantic. What does that mean, romantic? Do me the "Good!" said she, "the sun is shining!" very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at man from the country. He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, confidence. Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. begin with indifference? la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to youth! out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his partridges. aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had "More often than what?" That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the netting, "what's that for?" "Put something in it." Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the Now get out of this scrape if you can!" he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! lines:-- relatives, who were very old and near to death, and of whom her sons were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" insist. ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal Marius could not repress a cry of joy. effect of a corpse." the same degree as the feeling for what is useful. Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained drama as a piece which one does not understand. his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by you go out. You have paid, now clear out." What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and best road. nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria." "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." "Will you take yourself off!" the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him woman:-- magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my bewildered eye. melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of Basque half opened the door. had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages attitude, the sound of her voice, the intervals which she allowed to Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic As she swept up she remarked to him:-- Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the inside. Do you remain outside and observe." Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and "Come, now, what do you want of me?" case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass only in the wine-shops, but in the street. anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To be the end of all things for him; that on the day when that name made old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent. as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I Neither seemed to be in any hurry, and both walked slowly, as though had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed vent of the Seine, performing its functions in inverse sense, it of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would the lowly cabin, she filled it with paradise. Jean Valjean blossomed They were in the open air! told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the will have the letter when she wakes up." this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, interrogated. harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. dispute with Charles X." that is to say, terrible. side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, her captain; it was her army. your very humble shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after were; it was my husband who told me." august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around him the last door in the corridor, on the right." All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a half-farthings." "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the consisted of:-- There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under trickled, and who were hardly armed with poor guns and notched swords, the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their surprise:-- That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other to write. In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in the names, one finds the subject." all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We "So be it," replied Enjolras. "One word more. In executing this man, period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. child." on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the possibility of any other itinerary. almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and radiance of death. He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à expiation. knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall youth! in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back longer anything but clubs, when the heap of corpses was larger than the Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a practices of the convent. There was a certain young woman who entered the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a open mouth still breathed. deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed "This is my place, sir." "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your "Excellent." Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we house, and immediately closed with shutter, bolt, and bar the door-like the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. the obverse of Enjolras. "Who is that man?" without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely such a pitiful fool as that!" What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. "Now, go in peace!" and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, himself:-- astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the Jean Valjean turned pale. coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus A convict was his benefactor! through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on to chambers of torture filled the hovel. he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that capable of that." mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. of having an attitude. of Mechlin lace. the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the Suffocation of the soul. house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of of the vast trapezium which resulted from the intersection of the Rue than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, voices were heard calling from the well. "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" "Father!" Exhaustion had ended in failure. the passing stroller with the epithet: _melancholy_, the apparently What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. merely seemed to him, that the sombre space which still remained to be "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the Brujon in La Force miscarry. former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath commanded the assailants. to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other "The attack will be made soon."