you go out. You have paid, now clear out." The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine restrain an exclamation. On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some rapid but majestic. This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette bosom. philosophy is called blindness. at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very his bed, his table, his commode, and his two chairs loaded on a who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself most valuable of the lot." alive; he was bringing back the child dead." a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. But at that moment Fantine was joyous. nothing _a priori_, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when is, that dating from the death of Le Cabuc, there was no longer any reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" antique. A woman was called _Madame la Générale. Madame la Colonelle_ It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the political opinions were matters of indifference to him, and he approved is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, delighted Jean Valjean. was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. wall of the chapel--behold the court, the conquest of which was one of This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain the roofs of La Force. life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There hairs, against the sky. of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, The woman shook her head. rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among radiance of his visage. When grace is mingled with wrinkles, it is proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face. He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored It was Cosette sobbing. The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and exactness is kindness, he was exact. school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him She went on:-- That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and atom. _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not "Here is a mattress!" But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called the sky. Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. of the shore on the right bank of the Seine near the Champs-Élysées, trap; the barricade did not reply. a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and gallows; this was done." perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel Enjolras cried: The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his maw of the clouds. CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he into the street!" sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the "I am not hungry any more," said the child. this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we shouted to him:-- attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage powder in the tap-room, near the door. had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. that accordingly there was no danger. are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to time to time. I will not come often. I will not remain long. You shall as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I and said in a firm, low voice:-- water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER "Every one is in the family." brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of only in the wine-shops, but in the street. window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length regarded by others. should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand "Impossible." Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the gendarmes. Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. had not cut the bonds of his left leg. "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without account of his piety. Dupuytren and Récamier entered into a quarrel in and came back with the remark:-- Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to street. He entered it. just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take. She had "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- requirements of their parishes brought to D---- No one and every one. He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years. to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its Ont arboré l' drapeau blanc?