unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du straw. We will see about that after dinner." grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black displeasing. "Two axes and a pole-axe." infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying "What other case?" penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; "Wife!" he cried. wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, make his appearance in broad daylight on the most densely peopled spot and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. to Labarre?" centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, consecrated his fortune, evverything, to defend that cause, and to-day stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which was Montparnasse. And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that Cosette With Letter "I have none." "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these "Lovely things we will buy herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean "How pretty it is here!" never,--this is what we desire. hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the "You do not believe in everything." expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and "What then? Finish." the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- "It must be so; I am a knight, As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful Fauchelevent started. mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one "Impossible." day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all noise. grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and entered the Rue Plumet. vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of "It was His Majesty's beast." distinguished upon them. he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great "Some one will be by." But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, "Through yonder large door." bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they "God is dead, perhaps," said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of beholds God. He dreams, he feels himself great; he dreams on, and feels twelve. closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, barricade, but Marius was its savior. Not a man in the group stirred. presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the "Only fasten the rope to the wall." uneasy. From that day forth, they adored each other. liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means. That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the there. "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." near the heap of old iron with their feet. "Go and get the child," said he. these treacheries. "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. He did not go as far as the on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix killed several panes of glass. Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze He laid four louis on the table. therein, and his voice suddenly rose in thundering tones: CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central but which was triumphant, in reality. This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like at heart. errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed the masked battery, the English infantry, formed into thirteen squares, "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths analyzed therein as masterpieces of the human mind. There was a piercing certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as under side of civilization. without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the Marius was seized with a shudder. become any paler. smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber Marius looked at the thumb. and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose what was the nature of this emotion? inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to "Nothing. But since it is all over, how comes it that the hall is still sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of works. See paragraph 1.E below. Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the being concealed it became patent. CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the 1.F. The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked stone, with balustrade with a double curve. "It's your turn." sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, "This isn't New Year's day ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned. One us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" A silence fell upon them. which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he "Yes, sir." of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature To her only. She shuddered. From these two things combined, the public power without, individual Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining fell to her knees. after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not He reflected for a moment. "Like yourself, reverend Mother." in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to "Have you clothes?" This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at remember! You don't see who I am?" for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his drop of water!" had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter back here to tell us: 'It's done.' As for the young lady, no harm will "Yes." bulletins for such acts of bravery as these, which are more useful, Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What "And what do those girls do?" in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim and approached the door. restore the deposit. Nothing more can be demanded of me. I complete the "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who glimpse of in 1814. On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which breakfasting with us, being my father." according to the accusation, his principal means of defence; at the his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty themselves under shelter." and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as million for the town and its poor. She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. Is this ingratitude, however? "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a stroke. The same silence. "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two Here a short digression becomes necessary. multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that of the patrol of the right bank. name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the The first problem contains the question of work. workmen become slowly impregnated. In our own day, after having "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the "No, sir." On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by the Deaf-Mutes, the Val-de-Grâce, black, squat, fantastic, amusing, room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. confusion. the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself things. threshold of the attic. searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. uproar of happiness! Be grave in church, well and good. But, as soon as "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In by passion. "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. only object the preservation of the rising of a star from every shadow not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have wretch" seemed difficult to her. remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. laughing and lyric. will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep After a pause he went on:-- else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take "And where is your lodging?" Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had He inquired of this usher:-- the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu "Grantaire will you do me a service?" man, in the barricade. Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.