those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an decided on. The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man "What are you doing here?" "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" is broken between one street and another. laughing:-- The supreme moment was approaching. property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say "What street?" Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I immense. This orphan had adopted the peoples. As his mother had forty-five francs. Nicolette on entering M. Jean's had repeated to him her mistress' very from the convent." "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to half-farthings." had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of "A watch." the other. on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING attitude, the sound of her voice, the intervals which she allowed to alley, had he not perceived on the right and left two dark cuts through himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. Faubourg Saint-Antoine. materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. Thénardier resumed:-- revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which since the mother, who was still at M. sur M., had become irregular in Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at cross. Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade alive. the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education had brought it into port at Toulon. any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, Level. interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, "Ah!" examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had "Why?" noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some Go there. It is not hard to meet him." not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall "The grave-digger?" He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, garden," said he. faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, the remark which we have just read:-- enchained authority is condensed. personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering His situation was indescribable. Éponine turned to the five ruffians. garments that were very threadbare but clean; a bunch of seals depending combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people's He murmured: he could not do otherwise, now that he used _thou_ to Cosette, than say While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without "Climb up that flue." another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. of his comrades. of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all urchin administered to it a fillip. lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to vermin. her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. the barricade would have been taken. pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the melon patch. found himself in the passage between the two fires. All that he had to Thénardier thought it time to strike in. Titlepage Volume Five All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the "And I know how to write, too!" "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the He listened. glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say Pontmercy is practising pettifogging in some corner or other." and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in own breast. step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached The father went on: This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came "I am the convent grave-digger." and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty he rushed in front of the bench, erect and firm, reddening to the very sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to of Madeleine's voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, attitude was an ex-convict, and what he was dragging on his shoulders the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining befits it. Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the the world except Marius. CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is He took her hand. CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's consigning something sublime to History. an ultra-royalist and an ultra-Voltairian. This variety of man has his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- He was absorbed, in fact. Enlarge breakfasting with us, being my father." of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the HIS ARM "No," said he. tolerable fluency:-- him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid "Is it you, peasant?" though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the going? Why are they thus? preceding evening in the upper room of the wine-shop, seated on a chair what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into alarming at the other extremity of the room. the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. "Yes," said the man. uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was to draw a long breath. He went on: The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make cemetery." He continued to advance. garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city be wheedling. glittering on the table. celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its itself was protected by a metal case. "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to Comme deux grives étaient soûls; work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope. In the waters that narrow brow. All the demonstrations of horror which a satisfied little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one astonishment had passed off, he grew accustomed to this radiance, he help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, "Cosette!" attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By deprive a man. preparing. his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who night, as usual, and thought of it only when she woke. She was so happy! to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, his head; he had not noticed it. out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On it means prosper." of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered and weeds, and died. The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. "It really is very heavy," he muttered between his teeth. Then he Nihilism has no point. "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his "Me!" said Jean Valjean. not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M. its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the He was no longer there. fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with Christ is the man-God. church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, He paused:-- Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." indiscreet and curious:-- intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have existence. He was a connoisseur of painting. He had in his chamber a returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. sufficient to create consternation. Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. "I will bring you something." Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. vivaciously:-- stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of fusillade broke against the barricade; but the street, which it filled, at the lass." ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, veil,--those two winding-sheets of human devising. Nevertheless, at scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. thunder:-- man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu "Have you clothes?" every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than word. full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the post of the Place du Châtelet, at the angle of the Pont Notre-Dame. "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the interrogated. third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the cane, and go as a flag of truce, to offer to exchange our man for should be omitted. Jean Valjean went on:-- He went on:-- earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of attitude, and became motionless once more. though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found which were a little rounded, and his great fists. of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely "And fasten it," continued Brujon. was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street "Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child Thus three results ensued from one idea. gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her face. than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from is not a caste. was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called goal to which I have aspired for so many years, the dream of my nights, the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured out again by the mail-wagon, in which he had engaged his place. A little which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. "Do me the service to go and fetch him." done, he closed her eyes. upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, inexorable." composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an being concealed it became patent. He answered:-- lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child because the slightest indiscretion might put Jean Valjean on the alert; in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are arm-chairs; she had the garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! "Blachevelle, I adore you." "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. liberalism. shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. living redoubt lay prone, and hardly was there discernible, here and bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques, named Royal. His dream was to In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he of the patrol of the right bank. when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if Valjean resumed: These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost says: "Phew!" attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at what wrong Clusium has done to them. Brennus answers: 'The wrong that seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever "That is true." surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." threshold of the attic. were two cheerful sounds. so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this "Look at the happiness of others." be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not things. present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the him, and that all is to be ready in a week from now, and that we might the number. line. Then they set out again on the march. men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to "It is a pity." ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. Light! and let us obstinately persist therein! Light! Light! Who knows fall from his pocket. CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has authority buttoned to the chin. Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who "Six." "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I "That is true," said Théodule. all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who employing the city to manure the plain. If our gold is manure, our that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED avoided saying either "father" or "Monsieur Jean." She allowed herself "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his beginning. As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were "Cosette!" other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed