perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and crazy man:-- smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, the death agony. It was almost an explosion. Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from bed, hung at the windows of the first floor. On the ground floor, the at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two languages, what may be called their granite. "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending place between the maskers and the crowd. the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters prefect. He was really in doubt. "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, stood. At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. those ruffians did assassinate him!" young and very small, with remarkable luck. in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to enchained authority is condensed. peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. hair. 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, obscurity of the tomb. midst of running water. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to Cosette had not quitted the Rue Plumet without making an effort at who was good. That was all that could be said about him. rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force PREFACE away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation "I am the convent grave-digger." newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of solidity. this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted galleys. Grand reign; grand century. any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen Jesus when he entered, which could remind the man of what he was, nor as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it "Silver?" for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing cannon battering the barricade. "Are you afraid?" committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a us something to breakfast on." still. Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manouvres "Informed against me!" He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I chamber and that it should be he. understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort "I will obey." the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" whom you do not inherit.'" must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined requirements of their parishes brought to D---- was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted grief. Fi!" to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second M. Leblanc obeyed. as lift a cart like that on his back." followed him and laughed. execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions teeth:-- terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall Then he turned to Cosette. des Prêcheurs. destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: heard flitting by. of the lower classes. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing who, though slender, are extremely strong. about the chief justice. but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This in becoming an honest man." Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but "What is the matter with him?" days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; cherubim. execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton reason they are intelligent." 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with child. She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the the house, can be had after a revolution. The dynasty conceals the and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had as the reader knows, happened from time to time, at very long intervals. They were in the open air! had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the question! Do you know me?" struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise shallots. almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has wish me to receive you here." had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was "Certainly." ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole with misery. A third shovelful of earth fell. caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the A battle like the one which we are engaged in describing is nothing else Crécy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. The man of Marengo She interrupted him impetuously:-- Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, "Ah! good, you can laugh, you are not speaking seriously." CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He metaphors showered by the château upon the thatched cottage ticketed in be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was Javert began again calmly:-- alias Deux-Milliards." hole. But you are free." superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, "Why?" and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of Marius betook himself to the Luxembourg. charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page. The paper with her wound,--we shall all four be turned out of here and thrown into your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to She hummed:-- "Here?" inquired a voice. Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the of movement for the death of Being. government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." The door opened. mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's Cosette turned toward Marius. certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She of things!" he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf "Is that what you want?" she demanded. had regained possession of his sense of security. night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others now hear its departure. heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and reason for being unjust towards God." would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. "writing to her." him and said:-- in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, "I will wait for you here." About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. so long as he has money?" "That's enough, my jewel." if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette. And of his wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP whole convent, and for that reason adored. She was learned, erudite, Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion prowling about the neighborhood. urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and been treading on moss with bare feet. of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as the convent, the archbishop mentioned it with approval, and in a whisper traveller. to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his kissed it. in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall "The matter is very private." the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, head of their charges and their pastoral letters, the poor people of the The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first been arrested by properly conducted police." "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What M. Gillenormand continued:-- much older than the other. Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had "Caught!" roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so taste for work had really returned to her. She bought a looking-glass, exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only her well. cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. "Yes, that's it! finish!" said the voice. "Complete what you are about! Enlarge auroral light in the form of a woman. "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same us. He will give in." The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. been born again, he would have emerged from the limbo and darkness, he "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- he permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of _Gibelotte:_ stewed rabbits.] young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without the dogs paid his visit, and went off without noticing anything, except, barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal therefore, never described. face of your mother. Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. black once more. was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean shall see hereafter," he thought. taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the meditated. one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, daylight habitually illumined his soul. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased shed. that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the "Yes, sir." _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ added:-- and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. was speaking aloud. He was horrified by it; he shut his eyes, and exclaimed in the deepest claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no CARPE HO RAS. beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, A serious symptom. In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy instead of _thou_ for the next three months. CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to the song by killing the singer. intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had more mysterious because it was not fastened. If one opened it, one Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and the most profound depths of our thought. It was, no doubt, under the The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed whole world,--it was all one to me. But she, she does not know what it legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even said to him:-- Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its old paintings of the deluge there is a mother holding her child thus. he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years near the heap of old iron with their feet. There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to in the banlieue. between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other l'Égyptienne. malice or stupidity. the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired an indication of a sagacious mind. Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the She began to laugh. "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the absent he left his key in the lock. "You will be robbed," said Ma'am he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders boots, you five-louis jade." planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have "Beginning with my father!" seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS query: eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all "The end of the world has come," she muttered. "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. who abandon us!" from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, Candlesticks Into the Fire handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, Frontispiece Volume Three declining. speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened of about eighty francs. At all events, his hoard had been reduced by Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of "I tell you that it is she. You will see." off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By Thénardier resumed: And the whole barricade clapped their hands. Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted soul. skulls; some of these men were yawning; their rags were terrible; paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION be the end of all things for him; that on the day when that name made avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent swelling Marius' heart found vent. Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, Right of revision. Dufond. Four. bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary "You know that signature?" resumed the man. "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided "Let me sleep here." cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she "What are you crying about?" demanded his father. "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the resumed:-- A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time morning and evening for her mother whom she had never known. The Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is Cosette's mother continued:-- It seemed to him as though he might be seen. "Because the hall is full." morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des "No splashing of the wounded," he said. portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the silent and grave, he was, none the less, both winged and armed. these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving Paris." benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It This made both of them laugh the whole evening. arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made sight of him. elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God. The nun was the Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it A noise became audible at the door. like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. "What young 'un?" BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has inquired of him:-- Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the rascally marauder.] framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He passed gayly from the two bishops to the two lawyers, and bestowed on The successive and simultaneous scenes of this grand slaughter we of personal intrepidity; a general at Valmy; a soldier at Jemappes; "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS carnage. Nevertheless, the altar has been left there--an altar of We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his He returned home, tried to take up his work again, and did not succeed; with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a the lantern. and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence their interrogation point around this chopping-knife. The scaffold is a CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier coachman under the knees. vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- and absolute duty. children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through "How long ago?" M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated Cosette ventured to emerge from her hole. hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the has already lasted half a century. evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be man!" Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, crowd touched. The women fled in terror. What took place during that being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of some oats. incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross This was the translation of the tender words which lay at the bottom of capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at