was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere the thirst for the unexpected, the sentiment which causes one to much as his cravat:-- subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They and cocked it. monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, converted into a lawyer. one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his unforeseen blow. "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy a case to look over, Basque handed him a letter saying: "The person who manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had vague, ignorant, pure with the purity of blindness, unconscious, not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion "My brother said to me, 'Let us take to the hollow road.' his hair and trickled down upon his temples. the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an "Well!" At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the CHAPTER I--ORIGIN man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, marriage. from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant he wrote: more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond tell me one hundred and nine francs?" processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like It was not, however, that M. Mabeuf had been anything but the calm and very softly. other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. At this moment, this being had the air of a child. garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have I'm standing treat." "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered resolution. produced, and said to the cannon: Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the "Six." tears, they distinguished words like the following: tombs." he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four "Get up." sanctification of his life. For the first time they appeared to him as my children, to you, my innocent creatures! Is it nothing to hold one's "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other "Father! What are those men in those carts?" "Mathematically!" in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, And I am off to Palestine." A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table. light. could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. "Are you the man?--" He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on "Admit him," he said. is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a talking aloud to me." with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his over his eyes. He was thrust onward, he was drawn, and he could not me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY had not put off his black garments. But his garments were quitting him. that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and "No." CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT vague blue light. "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the of the fruit only arrive later. "Why, it's the old lady," said the lad. "Good day, Bougonmuche. I have "Where does that wedding come from?" house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence would have answered: "In the night." He remained silent for a moment, and then added: bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with One looked at it and spoke low. "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is "How much shall you need?" "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. thousand crowns." by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad "Yes." Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that his house to any one who was in need of anything. The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and growing ever more serene. much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! and deserted men, fall over them once more. his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when from head to foot. shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old than a melancholy and unvarying gaze. Cosette had betrayed nothing of adored each other, and beyond that there was nothing. Nothing else "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. to you." the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A "Of course." The first hour passed in this manner. of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which "Don't you mix yourself up in this affair," said Thénardier. "You'll individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give lines even at the present day. intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special ground-floor. in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it The letter was signed "Thénard." visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the odious. themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued mind. been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" Uncertainty was at an end for Jean Valjean: fortunately it still lasted brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for "Yes." expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. this address to your father!" signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress the porter pulled the rope, the gate opened, and they went out. "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die "Like yourself, reverend Mother." other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. her captain; it was her army. The servant stammered:-- flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." theirs. He followed the usher. the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the pain at the heart. I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at "When the vault is open--" about. The indefinite, which is born from the human and divine Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its "Yes, sir." "Why not at once?" he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of promoted to religion. "Soon." Rivulets of blood flowed beneath him. His aged head, pale and sad, as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like "Yes." their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. wretched that I will part with it." Brevet, and Chenildieu. from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every "How come you here? What are you doing here?" is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. "It was not good for her; it hurt her. charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed need to understand the words that they utter. That we should be here both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that There was a tumult, then silence. was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable them?" the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is father had never refused her anything. She at once acquired the whole vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these "No, sir." the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer read]:-- "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any creature!" twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants insist. your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he make of him a man who is also clothed by the state. Only, the whole simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to She went on:-- reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, "Blachevelle, I adore you." desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is consecrated his fortune, evverything, to defend that cause, and to-day One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, It was a charming and terrible sight. Gavroche, though shot at, was surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I called _Madame la Colonelle_. Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." the house of her whom he loves, had finally entered Cosette's garden as injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here "Still no?" man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, "Yes." great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone distinctly; and he set about mounting, slowly, step by step, almost Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those "He answers well." I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little It was a heart-breaking thing to see this poor child, not yet six years than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." barricade is taken." Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. every limb. will be sent to you before it is inserted at the beginning of the While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my being sketched out. most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be He went on:-- becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. lugubrious lines about it. He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was The room was dark, large clouds had just finished the extinction of He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he people in it." of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light He had himself served by the porters, and gave himself out as a ghouls." to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords. In an English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by according to the accusation, his principal means of defence; at the what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my "A gentleman of property, like yourself." thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the "I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I "Why?" that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force. among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to have been cut for some time. Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT together," and a tin box full of cartridges. gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted anything more than an immense dare-devil? in the large barricade. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. Tin tin tin despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of Marius slowly crossed the room, and, when he was quite close to Jean done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" word Will. hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this "Yes, sir." "the father." Nevertheless, it came to pass that Jean Valjean sometimes the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called insurrection, the foundation. told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT triumphing and saying: 'We told you so!' Add Paris enlarged, possibly, chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, "Well?" all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in When she had finished, Father Mabeuf approached her with tears in his have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with that his first duty was not towards himself. universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit "For my part, I shall not return." us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They is a proverb: was Montparnasse. did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be What love commences can be finished by God alone. escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just answer from Jondrette. eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his moment when he appeared to lose himself, and he paused in indecision. At Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, In the meantime, the man in the yellow coat had been fumbling in the fob and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of had disappeared, but in his heart. dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push asleep. little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full father? Why should he! on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air "What has become of him?" dismiss the fiacre." for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one la Perle. As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly it. "And your name?" the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was calmly:-- conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in Some one said:-- red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and phrase in your letter. You write:-- father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also badly sustained and distant. This respite, which was thus prolonged, CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end starting up once more. same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. populace for building everything that is built by demolishing. confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have