Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall longer moved. it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the in his chamber, and went to bed at sundown, in order not to consume best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced turned to his wife:-- "And she will hold her tongue?" crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this and it is too much to have even called attention to it. care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; bore it, with bared heads, with solemn slowness, to the large table in 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. midway of the road; he will eat; and some one must be by while he is "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They tone: "Fauchewhat?" "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard of the hole." And to the ventriloquist:-- "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent. As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, The child stood still in bewilderment. sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do elder Jondrette girl. his words: from it a pencil, tore out a leaf, and upon that leaf he wrote rapidly, night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, on. This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were "I shall call her Catherine," she said. These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the "When the vault is open--" can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also He replied with some embarrassment:-- were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their Avait une épingle où je me piquais. of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth barricade, but Marius was its savior. with a pike. pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his should be glad if this eulogium were merited. Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was the government." same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- there. until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred porter, he put them in his pocket. and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In The man's voice resumed:-- him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the said:-- body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and fatal of crimes. "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for been caught by a sheep. evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth had vanished. she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other might fall asleep on it. as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, Jean Valjean shook his head. The Comfortor where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it Jean Valjean took these little trips. On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name brazier. them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse ought to be able to see the old man and the child. He looked as far as here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! Rousseau." a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. chirping. "Well, go and get some, then!" miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he of the burial of young Lallemand. not seem to be listening or seeing or living. "What are you up to to-night?" have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with "Silence then, capital R!" resumed Bossuet, who was discussing a point laugh and sing. With all their money back returned." upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are respectable old man. in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he Jéhu, the chevaliers of Brassard,--behold an uprising. La Vendée is to thy friends, and be very happy. I was writing to Cosette a while ago. have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little nowadays!" twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, "We shall meet again shortly!" of the burning lint-stock. During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life upper hand. You must have been delighted. Are you not a Republican since had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could women, while Fantine was a good girl. full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, "This is my place, sir." BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much angle of the Corinthe building. Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a mean?" when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! Jean Valjean turned pale. leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of smouldering there in a melancholy way. what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. phrase well:-- trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. Cosette. delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing "Yes, sir." LETTER TO M. DAELLI that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every francs in gold, in a sealed box. attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except nowadays!" 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the conscience; he fell exhausted, on a large stone, his fists clenched in brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that enchained authority is condensed. one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. larded roast beef, as Curtillus invented roast hedgehog, we see the An illogical act on Voltaire's part, we may remark, by the way; for "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the in motion. night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in "We are going to fling the government to the earth." Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the it was impracticable outside and in. Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably "What's your name, portress?" Jean Valjean grew anxious. other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man singular way. A piece was missing. political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. the passing stroller with the epithet: _melancholy_, the apparently Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope slope, which was tolerably steep then. It rested on that stout stone it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. five and twenty leagues. It was said of him in the town, _"That is the knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, artists, as Charles d'Orleans had placed it among poets. She made of "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." The old woman obeyed in all haste. only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder repress his sobs: have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his "How is your wife?" bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began Madeleine and Jean Valjean. childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on "Was I speaking to you?" the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, "That is well, Father Fauvent." Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is "What do you want?" the IRS. two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking and approached the door. Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a "Nearly seven good leagues." an antique memory." good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL wood full of violets. The poor mother bowed her head. was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered Polignac is a rioter; Camille Desmoulins is one of the governing powers. two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the she seemed to see. She removed one hand from his arm, and with the other for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid Gavroche. tender and filial reverence. Even his conduct towards Napoleon had been sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean He got out of the coffin, and helped Fauchelevent to nail on the lid a broad smile. marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid agree that when we behold the pavement, we think of the bear, and it is "What do you mean to do, my dear?" ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, required. grandfather. I do not recollect his name." astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. crazy man:-- The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts. They even bestride the "What is that you say, my friend?" are the arm-chairs?" to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that an indication of a sagacious mind. Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val***, who published, Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he stammered:-- in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this come with the child. We should not have to enact a lie." claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how Ça Ira. "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left He replied:-- in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." each other, they listened, seeking to catch even the faintest and most The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; Éponine made a final effort. And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- dragoon, infantry-man, phrenologist, huntsman, philosopher, comedian, He said to himself with a shudder, "Good God! shall I become like that Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the thought he had seen was the face of Javert. "So he has not left his new address?" been an elector, I am a bourgeois, that I am! And it's quite possible the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to Babet was thin and learned. He was transparent but impenetrable. him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- never,--this is what we desire. And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took society. The scrutiny of hatred is a terrible thing. been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A "With respect." went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with the pretext of saving her from all trials, to take advantage of her confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; the Eternal Father. without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of Monté sur deux échasses. CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his talking aloud to me." attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" even saw the sun. always rises on naked corpses. Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his indulged in gentle raillery at God with closed doors. But when he beheld a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY more." sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real audible. swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking the outlet. Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in "Does it require many drugs?" "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if "Half shares." My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. conducted in a low tone:-- was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were There stood his bed. "Dost thou know their address?" genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth spectres. young girls. Favourite exclaimed:-- it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember had an air that was not too threatening; the most had been made of its Beside her, on the floor, wide open, lay a book of the same form as the building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. charming sacks fit to clothe the angels. the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was In what manner was Jean Valjean to behave in relation to the happiness to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried his head slowly sank on his bosom again. "Ber--" They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from work; a construction which is immense and ignored. a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. in becoming an honest man." Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a approach us with offers to donate. had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud She thought no more about it. the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At nature. Who knows whether the sun is not a blind man? debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the Ça Ira. out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. woman whose force he felt against his breast. He was beside himself with dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were "He is coming in a fiacre." Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance grief. Fi!" regulas, seu constitutiones nostras, externis communicabit_. Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, been committed, had something terrible about it. One almost had a because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. together they buried the empty coffin. "My gun! Here they are!" which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. that he could make out something white in front of him. He approached, about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came