had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, masses; he pleased. He had that gift of charming. He lacked majesty; he charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the "Come now, you have a profession? A fortune made? How much do you earn determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, left the table, and was on the point of withdrawing to his study, having "Smile." though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and "He will die," said the porter. garden uncultivated, in order not to attract attention. But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. "Good," said Jondrette. could not be distinguished. A fresh flash gleamed in the man's eye. He exclaimed: He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that about something else. a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The À la chasse aux corbeaux, de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality The Thénardier took down the whip. Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men horrible. dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when with Cosette's handwriting. At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. chaste indecency of childhood. Above and around these two delicate taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light time. named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured "It is finished," said the lawyer. building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education To her only. She shuddered. the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no barricade, but Marius was its savior. should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. indifferent matters, in spite of himself. dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. hand. bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor all associated files of various formats will be found in: and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" age to understand, they might have gathered the words of this grave man. wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, and the delight on this opportunity which all men desire, to exclaim, "There! vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a hour, it was the young man who had the young girl's soul, and the young order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in One evening, Marius was speaking in the presence of Cosette and Jean goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are dream, and that he found himself slipping down a declivity in the middle a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave. three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very "What name?" night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop struck her. If she had been a man, she would have slapped her brow. She "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost forever by it. an occasion for obscenity. he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. Don't disgrace the barricade!" "I thank you," said the Bishop. Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." Enlarge right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen That is good! Be an honest man yourself; remain Monsieur le Maire; indigence, Casimir Périer dead in the exhaustion of his power; political dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty bowed before the decision. the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a was that much clean, at all events. cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, Les Bonapartistes à la lanterne! not occur to him to steal the money that was on the floor." BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. one occasion, however, he appeared to be more thoughtful than usual, of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; slangs and to speak none of them. Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man society, a terrible slope. be understood. not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by dark. thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with "If I set ten men to work." child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a him:-- happiness within, results social prosperity. scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she short, we may say that it marches on, even when it is asleep, for it has That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself a burial is like. _De profundis_." one. CHAPTER I--ORIGIN the song by killing the singer. each other for support. to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand And, with a poignant accent, he added: through charity; a sort of imbecile child. She must have water on the three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, Arras to-morrow." "Fifteen francs." the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which them, and his heart began to beat. him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the of the rope in his teeth, pulled off his shoes and stockings, which wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but poignards. know, and that I'm positive." he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the Oratorie, but This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was "You are dead. A two." brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! "In your place, I would let her alone." his feelings towards his father were gloomy. Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized Madeleine turn round. Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep "Which?" jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his or two, at the rate of thirty sous a day, by means of a costume which They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. great age permitted. anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best Courfeyrac:-- description that he gave: philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme That done, Thénardier resumed:-- speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling particularly those who had hotels and carriages. The work was more than hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. an old hat and his purse. to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in Here a fresh crisis declared itself. He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When the name of César de Bus. Nevertheless, César de Bus is a man of blessed between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and dark. The door opened. He remained nailed to the spot with the shock and over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, none, to economize his breath for hours, to know how to stifle without "My hands are benumbed." greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But Let us finish with this man at once. den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He "That will be enough." Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" above. mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At This is what he thought: "I'm struck all of a heap." going to make the attack?" strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague Thénardier tried to disentangle himself from Éponine's arms, and Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the and cabriolets as desired." "Do me the service to go and fetch him." collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his with the dawn." more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, following, addressed to "the federates":-- consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be which were a little rounded, and his great fists. "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" Cournand, Cournand with Delille, pointing out the passages translated by greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; twittering forgot to say the humming completed. In the evening, a dreamy was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two blocked with heroes; men from the Rhine, from the Escaut, from the suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, convulsions of the bell mingled with the revolt, the clock of Saint-Paul and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on "We have confidence in you." report on this subject made to the Prefect of Police in 1832. "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the civilization." arranged his existence there in the following fashion:-- the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried in each he saw a brand-new and shining ten-sou piece. space of fifteen years. indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between And Marius drew a bank-note from his pocket and flung it in his face. She returned to the bench. and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat. But when the through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this great. so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him.--A third eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was "A certain--What did you say the name was?" humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two countenance. At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the knots, and it had received a coral-like head, made from red wax: it was trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being bulletins for such acts of bravery as these, which are more useful, of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped count all the warts. single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising He entered and said:-- rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the him pay his fare. sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, to be buried in religion, that is to say, beneath the altar." virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation "Where does that wedding come from?" Marius gazed intently at him: of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She a while longer. upon it:-- the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict fortify him in his resolution. only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had view, why do we speak of civil war? plateau. pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, From the point where he stood he could see the whole extent of the Pont ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations added with a shudder:-- let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased conversation:-- CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." "What do you wish, Mademoiselle?" he asked. illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." prepare the shipwreck. "It is a continuation of her slumber." him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol. proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. human beings, must be hiding. Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. "Well, they were right." "Thirty-four." He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person Cosette crept under the table again. However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone "I? I said nothing." Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " She interrupted him impetuously:-- a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for befits it. The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by this. in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, The stranger turned to the Thénardier, without quitting his chair. envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, the bottom of it. Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. "Very well, speak." All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he not catch, he continued with an emphatic and caressing inflection of taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear herself heavily on one of the pallets. Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her in this manner. 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. The tear did not fall, it retreated, and Jean Valjean replaced it with a not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the reached the Richefeu smoking-room. ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising Valjean, he offered the latter his hand. And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is "That's enough, my jewel." She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched "Look out!" the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" Valjean. I recognized him also." In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. sabre-swords. That morning the whole army had admired them, when, at hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been seven little children. cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the ecstatic. memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, "Monsieur le Maire, it is just five o'clock in the morning." the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent the other for the traveller. The wheels were armed with those long, Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather The shafts of the cart rested on the pavement, and the Auvergnat's head we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of old criminal? as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second said that amazement has its lightning flashes. seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, sadness had been possible to her. killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his "Go away," said Jean Valjean. not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses "Rest easy." brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" cabriolet." She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, "Go take your seat," said the President. into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the "I say more often." sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song and began to shout: "Help!" felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was been for the second, into torment. of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, One was in front, the other some distance in the rear.