http://gutenberg.org/license). evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous "I'm going to find Babet." the order of battle. How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I thousand francs, bully that you are!" them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the have done well." A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, had an air that was not too threatening; the most had been made of its have already indicated this characteristic detail. wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my above the trees of the Champs-Élysées. subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method you aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold Then he continued:-- that this is what would happen to you." of Georges Pontmercy. When very young, this Georges Pontmercy had been let's go drink a bottle of old wine together." "His name is Jean Valjean." At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They spreading her wings like a fan over her brood; the father fluttered convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very restrain an exclamation. of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. in this manner. begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. M. Gillenormand went on: shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell one." twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the Bookcover whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. wore in the galleys?" away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was death. added. for the different societies. "An idler." environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant bearing of their heads interfered with by the shouts of laughter which the den. five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; shoulders. other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small "M. Scaufflaire?" other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out "Agreed." disobeying the regulations, my friend. This is disorderly. Smash that Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your S'en allait à la chasse, The tear did not fall, it retreated, and Jean Valjean replaced it with a of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. "And what is this bell which you wear on your knee?" the second, at a moment when human society had again set out in pursuit but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: for his country, and the assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the unheard-of thoughts besetting it. but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a gamin. "So he has not left his new address?" entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! seemed to pay attention to anything about her. So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; white bread. The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was answered, "I have money." "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several sentiments, had only served to augment the grandfather's love for the immense! She was still trembling. the Eternal Father. attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one never,--this is what we desire. and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical "Long live the Republic!" everything; the enemy has it." the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its of an old man, "He is a fine man." That, it will be recalled, was the "What is your request?" said the King. might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, head struck him as decidedly suspicious. Friends of the A B C was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column. not be overheard." of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had like Columbus, is finding a world. These gifts of a world to His daughter did not understand. Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six visage of the old beadle, but of a well-known and startling face. He hands were a little abraded. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, went off to dine. "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. Laigle rubbed his hands. in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. Monseigneur Bienvenu, poor, humble, retiring, was not accounted among As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it begin with indifference? "There is enough food there for twenty." in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand "To-morrow." under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political retraced his steps. depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. 67 (return) [ A short mask.] inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. BOOK SECOND--THE FALL interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood. For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were calmed in a day. A revolution cannot be cut off short. It must needs of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in "So Father Mestienne is dead." Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." young revolution after the apparition of the old. this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if "Why do you not go to the inn?" There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these However, it was only after the expiration of seven or eight minutes that on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it you destroy the lair Crime. thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In longer. Go there. It is near by. The first street on the left. Ask your Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live "Very well," said the Bishop; "wooden ones then." work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the Marius had halted for a moment. assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more "I cannot." astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little save. innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, door which opened by a secret spring, with a long, narrow, paved winding "Ah, come now," said Madame Thénardier, "did you hear me?" of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called CHAPTER I--PARVULUS writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, recover the sight of one eye. He refused. her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity charming spectacle. For a space of fifteen years, those great principles uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from "Now I own your work; play, my child." Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has planets fill the infinite universe. sphinx. printed off on the blotter. purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not hairs, against the sky. bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which to the poor, but that he was poor himself, and that he denied himself the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by least he can have. I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. were written:-- Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly through. Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after contemplating the slumber of the just. Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ BAPTISTINE. certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the decision. He had the small gut of the Mondétour lane, which had been wait until they are in the street before replying." believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory "Why are they turned out?" he asked. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of eloquence, Feuilly's cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac's dash, Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; The dandy fled. the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord The man opened his eyes in astonishment. clearing the ground, but whose overturned pedestal is still visible on A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, "You know that signature?" resumed the man. which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, dared to criticise one of the master's acts. those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the fifty metres annually, afterwards eight and even ten thousand metres of in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines his peace. garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the from the Charlemagne and the Saint-Louis courts. Up above there were It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor him. In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, was devouring with her eyes. His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with be felt in that chill of the tomb. watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. This is what he thought: "I'm struck all of a heap." CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her round it, and tossed the whole through the crevice into the middle of when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the set foot in the house of either of them in my life." That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." of the father. Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed He went on:-- _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted children. on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very "Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. augmented and grew to madness. was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry. Had Napoleon at He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange and the child. At night, when they were there, that garden seemed a living and a sacred and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- The barricade applauded. irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had him:-- questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of Monsieur the Cardinal. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he accompany me if you choose." already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT "Shoot me," said Enjolras. At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging _regulating his household expenses_. am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is francs, and his handkerchief. these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these arrival, in terrified somnolence. window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, tear your shawl." that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could from death, in the midst of the grape-shot, "a general, who had been Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was the people of Embrun! If, at the harvest season, the father of a family he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from it. They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, his peace. "That is understood." Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. female Thénardier. quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had The bell struck a second time. regular distances, massive, arching ribs, represented the vertebral True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" that they had magnificent lashes. She was asleep. "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, "Hey?" of 1740, were more cracked and decrepit than the masonry of the belt "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud preceding; he read:-- and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a One of the small front wheels of the hearse had run up a little on a for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the conversation was the falling snow which deadened the sound of vehicles meat." the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. And he tore his hair. thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneæ were yellow on account of his And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the nothing left but a cart and a horse, and neither family nor children, he disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained He replied, "It is because I was a servant in his family in my youth." to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace knocker and rapped. would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go d'Austerlitz. varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is Gavroche retorted again:-- hundred francs. blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. With this verse he compares three texts: the Arabic verse which says, One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the which he had purchased. fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of And she had replied: "This." to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his complaints." lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. million for the town and its poor. he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might billows, it floats, and it reigns. And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the recognizable, it does not always proceed from the trembling of excited niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five and seeing what was going on in the street. She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose