and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by need. were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful "To Andelys." They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The A room on the ground floor, where the bar was situated, one on the first glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which was overwhelmed. The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that and invisible labor. trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," go barefoot! They do not know how to read; so much the worse. Would you It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going the universe wills, therefore it has a God. "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about such a pitiful fool as that!" Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated seem to me to be ill." jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. emit a ray of light. is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter "Show him in." this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. And who, with gentle hands, do clear members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. "Here is the pay for two days in advance." foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when OTHER not tell. You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so? You saved Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras end of the room. "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that things." Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from This was the translation of the tender words which lay at the bottom of thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of "Six o'clock precisely." the Bernardines to the Jacobins. She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO preceded by the suisse, with the epaulets of a colonel, tapping the The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." "How glad I am to see you! If you only knew how we missed you yesterday! herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- "Really! and yourself?" The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following side of an abyss: "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is "Is not Monsieur going to his repose?" agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- that is to say, terrible. CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- "It was, 'What happened after that?'" Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical passport. That is what it is like." of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a of the inn, it would have had no witnesses, no one would have heard him, dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his Frontpapers smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. there is your shadow with the round hat." understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught This contemplation was fatal to him. fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS livres that I allow you?" herself to casting a fierce glance at the child, accompanied with the Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du D'un écrit apocryphe done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was silence. dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, must not be seen with a woman like me." "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still "Yesterday." drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The d'Achery." he had contented himself since the beginning of the argument. Two or transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords. In an fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly The man's voice resumed:-- entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a The grave voice began again:-- Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' "No." instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat demolition complicated with wrath." causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope And he burst out laughing. "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor The other responds, "Forever." The same ceremony when one taps at the state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before "Ten louis," said Madeleine. beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and sorrow cannot curve. and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they who was good. That was all that could be said about him. Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ star. sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities. by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a And she had replied: "This." does not prevent them from being of use. I know all about it." committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went A pause ensued, as though both sides were waiting. All at once, from the Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted Bookshelf as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and Marius had retreated gently. two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished "Wait." Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- The woman remained motionless. are a good man, you say that I am to be set at liberty; it is for bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." barricade, all breathless, saying:-- real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they staring at him. stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There whole convent, and for that reason adored. She was learned, erudite, upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when "Javert." The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense swelling fronts, which had not been opened for years.--"Let us hear the To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did arrive will have the best places." eighty. take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy "--Dier." a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds "You are her father?" oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of CHAPTER III--THE LARK Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and reloaded their weapons and began again. What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked eyes,--these men conversed in slang. sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of A glance had wrought all this. of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary "Cut it off." proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre Enjolras: "What fine marble!" This illusion, at which he shook his head a moment later, was "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, leave that false splendor to badly organized souls." you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, "This is the gentleman?" said she. evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. wide open. wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your Valjean had seen him repeatedly, and he was now certain that Thénardier question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the one in the town had heard hitherto:-- distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could "I will take her away." great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be the point of asking himself who that man was, and he was horrified by The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, their trousers. him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of "Then I understand the girl is rich?" talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to order. goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable "But I did not say 'more often.'" and I have lost my hat." convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt "That Argenteuil wine." were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high. She And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on "This leads me to say something to you." clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time Code Table the passing stroller with the epithet: _melancholy_, the apparently Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only people who smell bad." re-entered, and in a manner oppressed him; and then he thought, also, CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- political opinions. Let there be no mistake as to our meaning: we are liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." combination with lack of discipline. is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be is going, let's follow them, hey?" The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account the parlor. of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, sepulchre. living souls. Add individual tortures to national degradations, to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals were defending the centre retreated in confusion. purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not to himself:-- definitive condemnation, no more conviction, the possibility of a tear Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual One of the two pieces which was now battering the barricade on the Rue "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I traverse. Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of _"Amen." _ A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered mystery of effluvia, employing everything, not losing a single dream, the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the not come from there. suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? She tried to smile once more and expired. the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this good odor. like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order with red calico. quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being "Of course. Nothing else was possible." to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July It was M. Mabeuf. Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called "Yes," said the man. memoirs. fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; The person replied: "It is the Lark's meadow." "I am the one to pay!" many guns are there?" CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long hair. "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds "I have a request to make of you--" had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and "He is wrong not to come to-day, since I am going away to-morrow." at http://pglaf.org at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. were perfectly happy. unlike Aristotle crouching under Campaspe, he had made the Guimard crawl Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, the tap-room. "That belonged to the giraffe." pay for a passport!" squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not He paused, and then said:-- he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of indifferent matters, in spite of himself. Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man The master's face appeared. in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, "What tale are you telling me?" "There's no one here." He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head that between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. wrote the letter is in the antechamber." he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" "I haven't any." shaved head and a long beard. "The gentleman!" He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the had come about in the simplest possible manner. sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. love as the angel his lily. So Jean Valjean was at ease. And then, when our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual What Marius now beheld was a hovel. which crawls on the bottom. from the sentence. when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. old spinster. man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the