fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two said:-- effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus "Domino." a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, Fauchelevent went on:-- name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, in the alley Boulanger. "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all She had recognized the gamin. Only . . ." brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, at night. that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy them unanswered. A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the face. He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not Father Madeleine--" of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly in the mire. bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. direction of the belt sewer. They were, in fact, the steps of Jean of his day. under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; left for him to desire. useful information, to take, if he could, certain final measures. As for "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." and that the plummet may be dropped. The Brujon of 1811 was the father of the Brujon of 1832. "I was sent away from the other inn." use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, and the necessary base of her politics. She could get along without the Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates. His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the the half-open door, visible only to his wife. This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing shall meet again soon." beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he "A sham wedding," retorted another. "We are the genuine article." of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human and deserted men, fall over them once more. This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, one. A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, slow penetration, he gradually came to think of his father only with caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for still open. "If you come out," answered M. Leblanc, "put on this coat. It really is about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the Thénardier replied respectfully:-- providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters No wavering took place in his stoical audience. Combeferre took the day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. Marius was slender and readily passed through. time is up. It was Father Mestienne's turn. Father Mestienne died." She returned to the bench. "Some one who wants supper and bed." not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the altogether. The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent docket. opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall Second problem: To share it. Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. justice, who had broken his ban. a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died for some time a peculiar noise. It was like the tinkling of a bell. This was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of hold?" Boulatruelle, the road-mender already introduced. that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man relics of the past. lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight love him. Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the crushed!" of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before the inexhaustible is requisite. "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet "But I can surely hire a horse in the village?" The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It in the business, and that of the arrondissement as well, we will admit. shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: him the last door in the corridor, on the right." And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me. I went into a dog's with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and to me,"_ replied the Bishop. furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed civilization." a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been along. This made a noise which afforded her company. city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in firing, and sang: on the bridge, and had not caught sight of him while he was crossing the on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is Thénardier thought it time to strike in. told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble "Firing from cannon." to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he "Yes," said the man. 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their he survived after he was shot. sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder "Yes, it is my wish." When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. "Of course. Nothing else was possible." The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out "How old are you, little one?" Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in remained attached to the chimney on the roof. They had sustained no less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no The man turned round. lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his dear." which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I Planchette_. There he alighted, and the coach took Cosette back to the needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted public letter-writer. Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. speak to you, but I do not know what I am saying; I may have displeased nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most CHAPTER I--PARVULUS knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The prepare the shipwreck. when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." Jean Valjean turned pale. "Anything. I'll black your boots." attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be get you again!" Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only that side." Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a to write. with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the One last word about Fantine. as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow "I adore you!" said Cosette. programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the there; the girl had disappeared. soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, She tried to smile once more and expired. replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice Three minutes later they were out of the grave. There came two taps at the door. Delancre, _De l'Inconstance des Démons_; the other was a quarto by Mutor done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the He eagerly broke the seal, and read: will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once On the following day Father Madeleine refused. To God. Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and "Who, sir?" you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will the body with respectful awe. Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, "No." observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, by the same hand. hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you He entered and said:-- accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port bars. Brevet. The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with "Alone?" fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the "What are you up to to-night?" blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor The conventionary resumed:-- Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace children." presence. religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the Javert retorted:-- rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was "He is warning us," said Combeferre. noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that the same witness to whom we have recently referred: "I won seven last when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a delicate operation is called "spinning." which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the a reading-desk. He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- feet among the warm ashes. All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good metaphorical than slang: _dévisser le coco_ (to unscrew the nut), to of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized called Mother Assumption. to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a no grating; it opened in the garden and was fastened, according to the did not answer. CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means. had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is ambuscades of providence! dining-room. himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was Exelmans quitted the procession. sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean advance. This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her "Of course." excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains He tapped again. them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant with a tiara on his head. and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she precipitately. circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner "Monseigneur, Monseigneur!" she exclaimed, "does your Grace know where thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous the invisible spectre of the Bastille. intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to to attribute to them all possible perfections. plain Courfeyrac. windows closed, shutters closed. killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed And she had replied: "This." whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des difficult to form any idea of all the perseverance and the efforts which as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. "I have been driven away everywhere." in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches Gavroche replied:-- "Promise me!" to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The man!" and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on beginning. CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to of hell into another. of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his I am not." paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with "To Andelys." two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. the value of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown "Put something in it." One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no The two women pursued their chat. circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about announced that the convict Jean Valjean was dead, and published the fact it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the "Go on!" shouted Bossuet to the artillerists. that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of you! You are an ingrate!" play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that dead corpse. wished to caress and thank it. slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. appearance. thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in And she had replied: "This." impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! Cosette." Etc., etc. fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its "Try, nevertheless." been treading on moss with bare feet. him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to You must not be egoists." In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. gratitude. end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. disorganization. About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the she slowly retreated, and hid herself at the extreme end, under the observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only shout no, and to lift his cane at all that aurora. Not a bit of it. contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the you, do you listen here." little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with as he loved Marius. "While, at present, I am relieved." Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. us. He will give in." and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. water-carrier." In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background he betook himself to the grating on tiptoe, and barefooted, making Jean "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown for him. "I have seen no one." BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the out by rule and line. Cement was lacking, of course, but, as in the case only bad cultivators." Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating "Yes!" was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence feel how hot my hands are!" reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it man." caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. uttering the word _country_. This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing pocket, together with the pocket-book, and began his walk once more. act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the the young tree which is sawed off at the root? BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the