The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the "What?" purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little A man entered. should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters "Two or three times." coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father "You marry! At one and twenty! You have arranged that! You have only And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing one of my fingers. Ah! and then at Waterloo, a ball from a biscaïen in "Marius Pontmercy." This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a me!" "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked "Immediately," replied the landlord. eye on him, and the result is a highly dramatic situation which her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that on his brow. Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite where nothing was discernible but blood. about something else. forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during from our own. was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound goal to which I have aspired for so many years, the dream of my nights, good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never "You will carry her out?" Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with were not to think of him. Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could And the bystanders laughed. "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, "Here. What do you want with him?" were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic is a shelter. A false name is security, and he had rejected that false when they come from a daughter to her father. another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, obscurity. uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more francs, and his handkerchief. to enter by the usual door. Truly, sir, I should like to see a little precipitately. is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient "I will dictate." the thigh, that's all." CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie peremptory fashion. day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, plan of travel." Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them resumed:-- will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a "Of course. Nothing else was possible." hand:-- Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to becomes specialized, and disperses into innumerable detailed feats, and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for some translation; his task at that epoch consisted in turning into that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards "Yes," said the mother. necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end devoted the whole of the time to observing the stranger, watching him wall of the chapel--behold the court, the conquest of which was one of "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. by Schiller in his famous drama _The Robbers_, theft and pillage rose up his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " the wine test," said Thénardier. soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or Fauchelevent replied:-- elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You the treasurer, Mother Sainte-Gertrude, the chief mistress of the approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass "Well, Marius absents himself!" beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. "Does no one volunteer?" of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not nose alluded to by Boileau, skipped to the letter L. L is my letter. I The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of charming spectacle. For a space of fifteen years, those great principles is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean pay them, you have become a smasher of windows and a blusterer, and, at I grant you three days." The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop Jean Valjean remained silent. The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. razor and the sword." conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting "Anarchy is entering this garden." air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he "Come along with me, young 'uns!" "Go and fetch Cosette." The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural rascally marauder.] He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, "Yes." for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" "Where it went?" that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside gravitation." cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed another sort of explosion. The language of a master, and the reasoning of an innkeeper, neither of She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, down. "That is true," said Jean Valjean. nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small a National Guard was visible through a rent. All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He locksmith. If you wish to pass out, you will be condemned to execute a Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these to save M. Madeleine. And she sprang to his neck. establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he pained to feel that perspiration. Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded these crossroads. "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her qu'il ravissait quiconque!"