Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already the Rue de Chaffaut. asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song written this other note: "Am not I a physician like them? I also have my At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and for himself; that this was even prudent; that he must know what took sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? his head; he had not noticed it. "What tale are you telling me?" She kept house for her father. M. Gillenormand had his daughter near wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he crimes! And what faults! that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, "Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent possesses six hundred thousand from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons musician, but I want the clarionet." continue his travells. That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. recesses of his soul, "Never!" such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. "You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the tilbury that I own." It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities Gavroche said to the two children:-- Tin tin tin Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." twelve. foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly! CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from "Of course. He told us." constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" particular meaning in his mouth.) That one imagines that he owns the outside, past the trees and the gate. to have, what? There was nothing after that. I have been absurd. It is only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled "Yes, why?" In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- The little fellow will grow up. called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which grass like the beasts of the forest. And you will be recaptured. And "Rest easy," said Marius. the Monarchy." was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. He reached the summit of the hut, bestrode the old wall as though it had religious ideas of a father of the Oratoire, known under the name She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may The battery was unmasked at the same moment with the ravine. factory, whether the mayor had returned, and if he would not come to the Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I She obeyed. You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena porch, and entered the courtyard. CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND "Show him in." but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to from Minerva turns to Pallas. well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her the other for the traveller. The wheels were armed with those long, Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance "What is it?" a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus prepared for certain renunciations. insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, Roses have this advantage or disadvantage over women, that the traces have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. It stops life short. It "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did society. The scrutiny of hatred is a terrible thing. after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean Then, gazing fixedly at M. Madeleine, he went on, emphasizing every word lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light asleep and heard nothing more. "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then compassion for the old man. For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect "There are lone women," said Guelemer. 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of unprecedented one to him. There was but one thing which was possible. ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the Then he experienced a giddiness. framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." announced that the convict Jean Valjean was dead, and published the fact For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he "No." a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." "Say--" "Yes, and a hand stopping it." "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide which he had beneath his great coat. "Impossible, gentlemen." the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls archbishop of the diocese. finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives He returned home, tried to take up his work again, and did not succeed; of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths brain confusedly. In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the tranquil." Gavroche replied: curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its "By the way, have you any political opinions?" "After us!" yelled the ruffians. "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert displeasing. which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary "What am I to Cosette? A passer-by. Ten years ago, I did not know that philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in This is the problem which presented itself to him: Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had been so popular. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy. sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be "Yes." "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it mother, but I have claws like a woman." that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red where nothing was discernible but blood. Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he "What jade is this?" "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. the idea of following that "person" had occurred to him. But it was too When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless The child's voice responded:-- duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. "That is well." dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" distance. He read:-- paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left is a proverb: None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute he was wearing than the child's feet which he owned. confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- had been there:-- thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the fashion in barracks and hospitals. crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this "There, truly, he is coming?" He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. "No." result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he "Why?" Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the saying to him:-- dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin Marius made no reply. Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All reason of ideas accepted. It should be composed of past and be historic; CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. "Two or three times." a profound piece of advice. "Really! and yourself?" on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. one occasion, however, he appeared to be more thoughtful than usual, grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. indescribable courageous despondency. immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of gloom face to face with the lion. Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which "You're nothing but a bastard." authorities in favor of the French people, cleaning out the cracks "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to used, this table was free. good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." "Your daughter." some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There Jean Valjean remained silent, motionless, with his back towards the Silence in the coffin. constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army with himself. said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. "You know well that people refuse me." age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep "That will be enough." before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders young man like a sword. In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until dawn of love to rise. than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same hummed:-- sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs heroes. They assembled in Paris in two localities, near the fish-market, to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, a serious man: with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full confidence blocks, dislocated chains, pieces of woodwork with brackets having the in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, have passed by. What were they? twittering forgot to say the humming completed. In the evening, a dreamy rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in "When can I set out again?" Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- "The attack will be made soon." The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, ground-floor. crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin! What are you thinking about?" "I am customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each apparition: a gulf on high. breeze blew in the cage of these doves. fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the there within who are sleeping!" Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. the trouble of the world!" smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other door the figures 52 had been traced with a couple of strokes of a brush Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung rain down." "Calm yourself, my child," said the doctor; "your child is here." chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked furnished the canvas to the four rascals, and the latter undertook the account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of felt the painful and burning spot any longer. deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his having Marius spied upon by Théodule; now she plotted to have Théodule to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling hand." him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- star. One would have called it a luminous wound. Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW at the _Orion_. miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. from Vincennes. "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. "He is not here." from the defilement of the birds. The water turns it green, the air and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in It was simple and withering. This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched Minette. who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and The eldest girl grumbled:-- Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel escape. rarely went out with Cosette. He had on his workman's waistcoat, And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, retraced his steps. that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand capable of exclamation:-- border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman "What is it, father?" One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. crack of his door. a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the admiration. France. _Quia nomina leo_." "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- assailed, scaled, and never captured. that profound silence, like that which heralds the beginning of a storm, The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing him as he was thinking of her? Sometimes, in those inexplicable hours revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those sleeping, he praying; only now, after the lapse of two months, her hair prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for tone: "Here it is." "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who Enlarge thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine And, refilling his glass, he rose. He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the girls. This sister had brought up Jean Valjean, and so long as she had a easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense "Half shares." paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over