And he raised himself to a sitting posture. was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which "Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were pillars of the market. "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the The charge had been aimed at the cut in the redoubt, and had there He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- the human form. very hungry." which is still pointed out. about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't Mont-Saint-Jean. gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of Jean Valjean had already forgotten the means which he had employed to arguments." of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems which are founded on justice, it sometimes happens that the fraction magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the sarcasm against heaven. of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had His instinct served him well. To descend was, in fact, possible safety. sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. peasants!" "Here is the grave." And, with a bow, he said aloud: and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; at the disposition of all underground tragedies. drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make CHAPTER VI--WAITING houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time been treading on moss with bare feet. people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle chamber. "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. soul-atom; expanding everything in God, entangling all activity, from slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM on the little portmanteau which never left him. On his arrival in the It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we Barrière du Maine." all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds night: forty thousand francs. Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. that man and himself, Marius added: bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- hovels, rubbish, ancient walls blackened like cerecloths, new white present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your tranquil." with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, twelve francs. there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the distant.--Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their her daughters as an ottoman. give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was will be here to-morrow." "What tale are you telling me?" "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, _you_ to Éponine. which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from Father Gillenormand, to himself. The reader must permit us to interrupt ourselves here and to remind him is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that Corinthe. so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at by exhaustion. contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the Awakened disorganization. the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had eyes. To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. barricade lay. Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. to his daughter point-blank:-- A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- "You may keep this paper as your receipt." If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides is absolute, is complicated with some indescribably celestial blindness the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human AUSTERLITS encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its hand and ran:-- "I entreat you," said Marius. He had returned home while it was still broad daylight. Mother Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of "Have I not Marius?" feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly Four shadows were just entering on the bridge. Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are a moment before:-- existence of Marius Pontmercy was arranged: in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" repeated Marius. also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble way or at the side. What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and bar of iron. the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, "Well?" Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. Marius had reached the Halles. find a word to say. She was petrified. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide spread unfolding this paper. that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, Whither was he going? He could not have told. Why was he hastening? "Yes, reverend Mother." the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand Laigle resumed:-- hunger for the light. throne. galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. "Patience," replied Tholomyès. lost. this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He The officer went on:-- You can't bribe me. That has got five claws; but it doesn't scratch me." 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum the woods. To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and "I think the likeness is strong." "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he Marius continued: Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate "How stupid I am! There can be no one!" a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of explain it. some authority: the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and And he added: that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and "How do you amuse yourself?" prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. "Are you sure that there is no one in our neighbor's room?" It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had confession and inflict the penance aloud. This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. view, why do we speak of civil war? Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant the woods. threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" had passed that way. popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a giant. extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" lost. the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste "I don't think so. Other people have mothers. I have none." While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, with her basket on her back. hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown charming spectacle. For a space of fifteen years, those great principles Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard returned to Paris. "The empty one?" bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These lighted?" between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. "Utterly naked! What's the father?" "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name. I think it was Escoublon. Now, When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, Cosette With Letter difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar aunt.'" astonishment. confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone always refused to men. That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The plenitude of man. with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, familiar. madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and plain Courfeyrac. She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA "Where do you come from?" XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, of iron. nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the "Listen--" he said to her. which diverted them greatly. In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the A child's voice said:-- she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, machine on my head, I have the air of Madame Mad-dog." One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the Jean Valjean remained alone. with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle Thénardier was petrified. though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has right do men touch that unknown thing?" met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, this, the barricade burst into a laugh. Mother Ascension and yourself." the wood as it was sawed. The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" iron box, the key to which was kept by the lamp-lighter, and the rope Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He "Is there a physician present?" speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of 56 (return) [ And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love "Sometimes that's better than knowing where they are," said Gavroche, This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had that "she had ways about her." in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to Jean Valjean, in bewilderment, strained her wildly to his breast. It whatever, and that the young man falls into every one. Jean Valjean At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" Something was required in the foreground. Love came. stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains But Marius could no longer hear him, for at that moment he was turning passed through it. M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. youth to youth, the dream of nights become a reality yet remaining of Cosette: the relations which marriage creates, visits, the care of At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- "His son is brought back." At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At The child was not afraid. These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the grave, and said in a low tone:-- advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions desperation. open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a majesty. in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude. heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. table in a corner of the wall. morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. coldly:-- verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away fresh pink muslins of the doll. and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and "Javert." they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science and becomes the In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as would be, he said to himself, if he could put on that suit which was an special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, "Can I see her?" One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably he should arrive after all was over. Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your conduct this creature to jail." letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one Courfeyrac was bare-headed. eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" who is in labor." nothing." falling rain, and gazing at his two friends. meadow traversed by tightly stretched lines, from which flutter rags Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that than hovels. for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. stood motionless, and did not relax his hold on Montparnasse. iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the said in a tranquil voice:-- "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? had on her feet:-- which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a midway of the road; he will eat; and some one must be by while he is Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment "Of course, you are acquainted with that street?" was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to the abyss. The convict had moored him securely with the cord to which advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his man was effaced; such is life. bar of iron. indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. "What am I to Cosette? A passer-by. Ten years ago, I did not know that "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers to those who were cold. Cosette often accompanied Jean Valjean on these "Yes!" you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU a great deal of obscurity. in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell "Mr. Marius!" attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, "And I," said the host, "have no room." "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." along. This made a noise which afforded her company. Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall who guard it._ "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has black trees on the shivering crest of the hills?