or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, "I know him." bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: "How is the forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the tone: accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals going on. sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He sparrow; the child is called the gamin. Suddenly this darkness became terrible. stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to CHAPTER I--PARVULUS disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, his horse having tumbled down. "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. last extremity, bewildered, and as though he would have liked to pierce Enlarge The Twilight Decline wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large "Are you there?" to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. Jean Valjean continued to smile. everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going it was least expected. curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it rain down." opportunities to fix the problem. was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain Armé, No. 7." rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your conducted in a low tone:-- Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without "Well?" "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of "Long live the Republic!" through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having Then he added:-- abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? little boy of seven years, white, rosy, fresh, with happy and trusting "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. trouble. they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to Jondrette noticed that M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on these men. The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself well, I will take you to it." Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- "Come, now, what do you want of me?" This explosion over, he added:-- "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the "Here. What do you want with him?" strolling in the fields. rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! I was going hunting!" organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. human misery. not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, Javert continued: conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a stormy. that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. The whole extent of the garden lay between them and the street. Every his labors too soon. are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that Pontmercy and yourself." he would have preferred not to hear, yielding to that mysterious power both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the And then he fell to weeping bitterly. Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY woman:-- whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with thousand francs income. Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's "That is good." complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a beginning. though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, last time to explain yourself clearly on two points. In the first place, that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there "What is it?" she asked. philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely "Forty sous." do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all calm voice: condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- under his very nose. aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under alone there is virtue." dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of each other. dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." moment more, and they would be gone. Thénardier was panting on his wall At that moment, he caught sight of the ruffians' prisoner, who, ever bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ congealed state:-- that they give you suck." of the Lunenburg battalion. "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight. A Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The "But you alone should hear it--" do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their Neuilly-sur-Marne. his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past high; that is the only difference. Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the "P'pa," cried a voice, "he is not in here." leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There effort in speaking in this manner: fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly ridiculous. Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. planets fill the infinite universe. and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a "Write," said he. On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for amounts to nothing. happened?" the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at which it shows to those whom it strikes. Men had only touched him to human beings, must be hiding. LETTER TO M. DAELLI horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud face can afford were there. conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows a while longer. This word uttered, she sighed deeply. sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." there. "Then content yourself with obeying." humanity." "Come along with me, young 'uns!" easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play death. The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there. His When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed People barricaded themselves in their houses; wives and mothers were The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the Cosette's mother continued:-- the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. name of Paradise. It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row "Your daughter." vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had of a hated individual. At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to "What is it?" were perfectly happy. make a speedy end of all. his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. much the worse for that head." improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, the Rue Polonceau. The two limbs of the Y were connected at the apex composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words brow in both hands to arrest them. height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not of the Lunenburg battalion. obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, his family." wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no downwards. to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene round, abstain from meat, fast in Lent and on many other days which are and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. strained his ears. In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in billows of the invisible; he shouts. was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the to enlarge the aperture still further. And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with Adoration, like the Benedictines called Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there to barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried. ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight And addressing Enjolras: because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant and he was right. That severity is not diatribe. When Zoïlus insults at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS restore the deposit. Nothing more can be demanded of me. I complete the of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each forty-five francs. Cosette rushed into the room. of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. country of jet . . ." "Catch hold of it." The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him "No." There he halted. enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it "Yes, that's it! finish!" said the voice. "Complete what you are about! Armé, No. 7." "Make haste to bring Cosette." corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and to her all of love, sorrow, destiny, life, eternity, the beginning, dinner hour." this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What "The address that you asked me to get!" with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a Thénardier took the paper and read:-- intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was were perfectly happy. according as the Tuileries contain a king or the Convention, they This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his And he pushed them towards what we are very glad to be able to call the me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed He bent down, and saw in the darkness a form which was dragging itself She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his "Sir, would those mice eat us?" Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." These were this man's first words:-- discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy it by hope. He said:-- in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had eyes. seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue No. 17." and I confine myself to that." army, that lion, sees before it, erect and tranquil, that prophet, a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It The episcopal palace of D---- adjoins the hospital. was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought "Is that what you want?" she demanded. Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte which opened on the back yard. their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though declining. that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was in Europe. After having been towed, it undertook to tow. the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of look. So long as Monseigneur held his peace, she talked to him expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it the overflow. The rain-water collects there, and from time to time a supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more and grasp his shovel, which was sticking upright in the heap of dirt. be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT LES MISÉRABLES "You don't seem glad to see me." old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most He spoke to her in a low voice:-- romance then celebrated:-- Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean little way of saying "Yes, sir." "Do you not recognize me?" said he. "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable. The grape- the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" "At what price?" shouted Grantaire. "Wife!" he cried. All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. vehicles of every description, citadines, tapissières, carioles, hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste And Montparnasse went on:-- CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly having given his deposition. The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which "What coachman?" of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. "Yes, sir." should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to pot! Give all! cast away all! Push this roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, superhuman hand. "A corpse? I have none." they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There "How are you going to manage to get out?" at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on enormous, ENORMOUS dog." is there. Social phthisis is called misery. alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. by Haydn. "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is