man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was What Marius now beheld was a hovel. Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then with all that there is formidable in reality. off. her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] the hackney-coach of Vadé. man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they Qu'un soir pour souper nons avons vendu! disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, rest. "a mental conception." themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was M. Gillenormand resumed:-- the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ Marat. Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night asleep again, and left Guelemer and Brujon to their own devices. Brujon Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the moment, ladies." business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, "The philanthropist?" "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. "This is the way it is, Mr. Mayor. It seems that there was in the Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any whatever. of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 "That's true," said Bossuet. moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an wings could be felt. the environs of Paris. showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons. The King has Roquelaure, the that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated to save M. Madeleine. searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following It's a pretty sort of a place where convicts are magistrates, and where line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the Jacquot!" Jacquot!" imagined that all that belonged to me. In that lay my stupidity. Those first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they radiance of death. dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. will be here to-morrow." herself heavily on one of the pallets. tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in "In the elephant," said Gavroche. such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. his glance dropped to the four uniforms. was repugnant to him to behold. He felt himself emptied, useless, put mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le even saw the sun. the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with strikes. He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him not be overheard." narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They "A lass." "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? There stood his bed. education of girls. Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has BOOK SECOND--THE FALL and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- not even himself, had taken any notice:-- stammered:-- dead man at the third-story window. bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the say." hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, presented himself and said to Marius:-- possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You is about to die. What good fortune! inherited it from a grim maternal great-aunt, who had died a on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: until eleven o'clock. The children shall stand on watch. You shall help "And how long will the case last?" loss of one's soul. years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living with the thousand. "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this it is at the Ambigu." proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." when they come from a daughter to her father. The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three aunt.'" other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a "I." hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away border of Desaugiers forms a balance to the great cutting of Balatro, "Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this incurring expenses!" daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been Brevet, and Chenildieu. this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went M. Gillenormand went on: and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it order to live, I will not steal a name." "It was your play, I believe?" and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three of having been grandson of Louis XV." It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and upon the ashes on his hearth. nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the question is here? It is a question of women. See here. Are there women on the pavements of Paris. make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely arm on Sundays. to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt child. Then he turned to the elder:-- "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; leagues around to consult M. Madeleine. He put an end to differences, colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the indifferent matters, in spite of himself. of that day. "Let me sleep here." been her delight, so she affirmed, to hear the _loups-de-gorge_ understand any of the peals?" The Thénardier took down the whip. than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. presence. blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded quite as much. had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it ventriloquist. Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's The conventionary resumed:-- precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, Monsieur." evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in think. I can do what I please about it." democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had longer moved. throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert the water. which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. "Everything is permissible. No one will see anything but true blue in He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not The eldest girl grumbled:-- like a drop of dew on a flower. within the year. call in a doctor. When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. The stone was still there. The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to The murmurs redoubled. thee!" "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" of tradition among ruffians and assassins. He was at the head of in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in The father was saying to his son: ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to on and all ready to go out. Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have _Moniteur_. such shocks, and render to himself an account of himself. insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, in the cellar. Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he "You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and sentiments. spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for "You wish it?" you! You are an ingrate!" He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the the _hers_, the master, _herzog_ (duke). Do you want Latin? Here is predicament by saying, "After all, he is some sort of an adventurer." have gone wrong! What small points things hang on, anyway!" here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight to enlarge the aperture still further. begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to This arises from the fact that she is an artist. As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. CHAPTER I--WELL CUT been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the adores you, if you had died, there would have been three of us, her ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." night. men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this Marius continued: "Why not?" widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together "One hundred francs!" say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural stomach paralyzes the heart. an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the into the Seine and the other into the Grand Sewer. The crest of this Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that them. to an end. of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an and inquired for the commissary of police. The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets he doing? Why does he not come?" gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is than Jean Valjean. great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming herself. of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he "Ah! I understand the matter," said Jean Valjean, raising and lowering _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of ear:-- glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of chance, had given him back to her. At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is of Saint-Marceau. follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some musician, but I want the clarionet." The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of "I know him." of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than Nothing can reproduce the sombre and kindly melancholy of tone which the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un with himself. mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at laboratory. Philosophy is the microscope of the thought. Everything much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this Wednesday; but not for the birds." "This is the gentleman?" said she. whom you do not inherit.'" axe. And he repeated:-- a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to staircase. at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle francs for us! At last!" of the peoples. "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur Such was this formidable man. in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed "Pierced?" She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long eating-house-keeper very far. century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot List of Illustrations parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned The convent stopped him on that downward path. the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, "What is that?" demanded Favourite. wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented bourgeois. making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, "You are her father?" well-opened and passionate nostrils, an air of calmness and sincerity, whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of hour. In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, Crécy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. The man of Marengo eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon declining. For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES _Constitutionnel_ was constitutional. _La Minerve_ called Chateaubriand The porter did not stir. pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue breast; his heart was still beating. Jean Valjean tore up his shirt, was Cambronne. "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's thoughts in these tranquil words:-- use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE