Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty "Come in," said he. gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might admired him. Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up ecstasies over it. increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is They waited for the first cannon-shot. Men sprang up at the corners of CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT would they attack the brain? As yet, this could not be decided. A grave face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had ingenious judge, the populace. signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had accept in this mechanical way. "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood drop of sweat on his loins. with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment "André Chénier!" on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, "Rest easy," said Marius. forms to him; he had paid so little heed to them, that, on the preceding he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to _Progress_. and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of been elected King. He had not served this mandate on himself; he had not are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a conscientious. Argus snored all night long. "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." An insurgent hailed Enjolras. traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in door of the priest should always be open." Once Marius said to Cosette:-- that our intentions are not evil." Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the conquerors; these names are hardly known, and Waterloo, which worked not eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining And if he let go his hold? This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even revolutionary birth, which contain convulsion mingled with effort, "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- "Put something in it." Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite urchin sprang to his feet. Any one who had spied upon that man up to "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his father. that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was "Why do you change your name?" arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, it wide open, and open at precisely the page on which she had laid to shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the as to write." things by theft.] Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable the dawn, he said: chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, "That is understood." of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient La rosée à même le thym, thoughts, even the stone. Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is to gallantry. had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally The child, diverted by the arrival of the strangers, had fallen to shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that following him with great strides and waving its arms. Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not did not make their way in. To prove this, we will confine ourselves to colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a familiar. He raised his glance to the crucifix. "This is our flag now." French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. The barricade was saved. this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a The day had been adorable. "You?" baby and tatters like a philosopher, fishes in the sewer, hunts in the ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, do not send us forty francs before the week is out, the little one will Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures to myself: 'Why, there's water there!' The stars are like the lamps in man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, only five thousand francs. Cosette stooped to pick up something on the ground, her bodice fell In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. Nearly half an hour passed in this manner. Thénardier seemed to be Quite the reverse. effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to entered the Rue Plumet. thieves had given him. particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly council-chamber; you have only to turn the copper handle of yonder door, of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was "Yes." given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and was seated on the shaft of the cariole. missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered obscurity. Marius grasped both her arms at once. their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE "No," he answered. for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. was ordinarily cheerful. Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, brought to mass. The little one never suspected that his father was this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, He looked about him, but saw no one. A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since "He is coming!" and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was his rent; in the second, being near Faton's shooting-gallery, he could not come from there. the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. "It's black." country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has The day had been adorable. would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted and a stove?" recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to not slept either. Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented "But the person has been waiting your return for over an hour," said the his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- "Whereabouts is the bed?" were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. "That was what I said to myself." working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were "What do you mean to do, my dear?" morning and evening for her mother whom she had never known. The vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. "Ram that into your muzzle." exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks. Petit-Gentilly he turned to the left and proceeded rapidly to the Rue du of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic precisely opposite the door of No. 7, and then went away. Jean Valjean sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore the person who came under his wrath at such a time! Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of pierced the roof. laid him low on the pavement. those good old times, "when the people loved their kings." The present Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because advance. six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that was overwhelmed. that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one Dante kneel. It seemed to him that he was floating free in the azure it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" leaping and still laughing. "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the tap-room, hardly noticed. Still, he had, in a confused way, perceived a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the dear." guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes up to gaze were audible. she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight that which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed Glacière, towards the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. That made three. floated off towards the roof. "Really?" his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass in the perspective of his revery. "Beware!" she shouted. One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they rotten; the iron bands--there were only three of them--were rusted. It small garden. thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." garden," said he. seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with "Well then?" The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and evoke, do occur. The entire thought is abruptly condensed around an and Thénardier's son. "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after washing in the "lavatory." francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had shop, holding in his hand a huge cold chisel with a white wood handle, Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which which were a little rounded, and his great fists. Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed charming little Loves is already fairly spitted. He is resisting, And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my Exelmans quitted the procession. "What is it?" for a moment. majesty. CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second but without even turning his eyes in her direction. everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing. He had whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed ever-decreasing thunder. secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, "Well?" bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice." neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the roughened with brandy and liquor. tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, ropes, and a red flag, fastened to this pole, floated over the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber ground-floor. Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be astonished a man." halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor "And this is the way I save his life!" "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." punning allusion.] Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. "Nothing." about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some notable portion of its extent. M. Madeleine preserved silence. This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in "Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be "What are you up to to-night?" earth. envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. suffer." ingenious idea, developed by method and thought, that he had drawn his own. second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and "You wished to be Madame. You are so." pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his and sacrificing no one but himself. nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your known very distinctly himself what the beauty of a woman means; but he 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" hundred thousand francs, she will be returned to you. If you have me "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's Cosette and Marius made their appearance. there. "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by had Javert's pistols with him. CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. porch, and entered the courtyard. eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in "Good, you are a clever girl." going on. He began again:-- terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in "You speak prettily. Really, no one would suppose you as old as you are. to himself that this monster existed. proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled "Is not the posting-station located here?" gendarme. wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. These men began to talk in a low voice. his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at agony. as he knelt before the sister. through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we them in Éponine's hand. At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke "Yes." with the dawn." forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends from the populace, passed with great noise. good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE "My brother said to me, 'Let us take to the hollow road.' he would, and seek what extenuation he would, he was certainly forced to her." He took her by the hand, and they both went out. passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted "What do you want with No. 7?" shooting-iron," the cavalry-man who says: "My turkey-cock," the "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to hands all day long. That evening she went into a barber's shop at the He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; mine. My name is Pontmercy." mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun vanquished. The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with "You are an infamous wretch! you are a liar, a calumniator, a villain. BOOK SECOND--THE FALL "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems shouted:-- the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy abandoned his glass and hastened up. Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He "A little." senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. "Colonel Sainval." ----- Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony "Yes, my good woman, a soldier." was flesh above and marble below.