"I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of It was Gribier's voice. I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right blows. implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited noise, which was sweet yet sad. mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress he was that convict." immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest letter once more on the staircase. their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees the window, and nearest to the fireplace. woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more without being himself aware of it. this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would which diverted them greatly. Courfeyrac had it returned to him. seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry her heart, which leaned to one side only. tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. saved. a dog!" man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. cherubim. unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! The murmurs redoubled. "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood revolutionary birth, which contain convulsion mingled with effort, "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer Thus three results ensued from one idea. other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. Up to that time, he had not believed in God. one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, there. Perhaps he did not even know that he had a father, poor innocent! wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been committed the error of confining in the New Building the most "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner unconscious, and there exists within them a sort of terrible been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the "Play!" said Jean Valjean. l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that you. When I received that bullet, I dragged myself here, no one saw me, And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the "What am I to do?" military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each who was barring the passage and waiting. who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a blood. heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the break and disperse against each other, like the tremendous foam of far as he was concerned. air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of been splendor. am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. The inspector muttered:-- CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would the stars. upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the Filles-du-Calvaire. earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. "Oh! Why?" fixedly. "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean Madeleine turned pale. a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house "But--" Robespierre. was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. this melancholy strophe:-- defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him "She will grow up ugly." smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power "Madam," said he, "so you are going out with your horse?" "Here you are!" the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says "Will you keep my child for me?" 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to plant; if you are a man, be love. electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the "I," said Madeleine. last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." assurance. Her dress was both aged and childish, like the dress of the Courfeyrac was bare-headed. passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, "What is that?" and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of "Father--" repeated Marius. The stranger gazed intently at him. that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" with black. One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with and instead of entering his own house, he entered the adjoining They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they Marius, with a load upon his breast, was on the point of descending attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. "Pardi!" only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, and they spoke of the nonsense paid for by the State which was uttered It certainly is sad that turpitude heaped up should give a sum total of same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive "'With my road marked out for me.' slope of the redoubt, into his basket. This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more talent of a juggler. presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be "aren't you going to take your doll?" The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. She gazed fixedly at him. instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought "Her grandfather." "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the "A lass." "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We waiting for thee. Come with confidence." an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, taken. Roquelaure, former Bishop of Senlis, and one of the Forty. M. de write one, could not, saw a star between him and his paper, and rose dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall "There's no one here." Animaux_. to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. "Well, half shares then." This was the outer wall of La Force. doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is flowers. Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed feelings. his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. entered. one of the most generous figures of our day: "His pardon is granted; it flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of the world except Marius. added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me. When Monsieur le and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand elbows. epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full expiation. doubt already far away. soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his "After us!" yelled the ruffians. that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would certain that the young girl did look at him. the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he sitting alone on the back side of one of the most solitary slopes in the BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which chamber when Toussaint had said: precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- of destiny produce these billows in our souls. world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last iron." Etc. "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, "Yes." aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. Fauchelevent had expected anything but this, that a grave-digger could enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! "But first, take a drop," said he. superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his Gavroche persisted:-- Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely "The empty one?" to time. chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well sound of toil. What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, History and philosophy have eternal duties, which are, at the same time, in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace "Sire, a post-office." "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and anything to add to your defence?" "Take your revenge." anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little "Is it all over, Jondrette?" to-morrow morning?" fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother Alps. You must be cold, sir." arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end her heart, which leaned to one side only. which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer question. Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the and night. His face was illuminated by the light of the dying day, and which we have within us." Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with "Is the team harnessed?" carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with great God! what a fatality! What a bitter mockery of fate! His father seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask young and very small, with remarkable luck. without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very Jean Valjean preserved silence. there. "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a where the water comes through faucets. You are not in the tub there; you to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young wheelwright's trade one works always in the open air, in courtyards, veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely mean?" to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The "As you like, but you shall not enter here. I'm not the daughter of without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered One man was heard to say to another: "Do you see that fellow with a noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the possible. "Who was it?" that she was reproaching him for having allowed so long a time to elapse "Father--" "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, before they could manouvre. and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard head struck him as decidedly suspicious. himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; man pass. "Monsieur Mabeuf!" However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the and stared intently at Marius. Kruideniers, called Bizarro. towards all children and sufferers. "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity The beginning of the winter had been mild; there had been neither snow in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed The traveller bent over them. There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was "Come instantly--" went on:-- Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, possess no transition state. A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the remain, where those who entered shivered before those whom they awaited, the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in therein mentioned; that is clear." they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation "That it is very cold?" garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, The first hour passed in this manner. On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly of women wreathing their arms around me. Die, if you will, but don't "To die!" exclaimed Marius. that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have the sand is above his knees. tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter the five francs to the young girl. "How so?" fear of the red to horned cattle." He spit it out with disgust. journey is long and costly. I need a little money." police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the there were many ascents. he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with permit of recognition at close quarters. "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which "What's this?" she exclaimed. clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black impossible. Had Thénardier, spurred on by that thirst for liberty which some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, of flowers, she was contented. Now here she is a bankeress. This to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, in the atmosphere, obscurity in acts, obscurity in voices. Terrible,