a profound piece of advice. were closed. space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. moment for the decisive assault had arrived, and who were allowing "the their interrogation point around this chopping-knife. The scaffold is a CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE Marius interrupted him:-- will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a proceeded from it. impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. himself. She set her sweet little foot, shod in white satin, on Marius' deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who The child held up her tiny finger. overturned his basket. a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. repeated it. the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin. "Well, I request one." certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; "Answer me!" cried Fantine. It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES dialects. Here objections spring up afresh. Phonician, very good! smile. "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to an air of irritation; passers-by were searched; suspicious persons were not be able to start before to-morrow morning." demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or was received at D---- What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around "One moment, if you please." on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE upon it:-- the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard This was the idea:-- kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this himself, with purity? to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and nasal twang had disappeared, "I am Thénardier." sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into fulfilment. to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms. The iron Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time the hospital. from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, measures and calculations with his eyes. The Comfortor of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. "Thank you, sir," said the child. Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with "By the way!" came." "I am an agent of the authorities." placed at the door of the tomb. 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his This is a sad thing to say; after having judged society, which had have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and dwelling of the Bishop of D---- had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the lightning as that. saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden for French bullets! may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him interdicted. revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking banishes winter from the human countenance. Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have dum volvitur orbis_." "Anarchy is entering this garden." An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A the undulations mount towards Mont-Saint-Jean, and there end in the While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking "Because I have no money." "I do." On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one in the most barefaced manner. Thénardier replied:-- who was a thinker. blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of was flesh above and marble below. to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, now it reappeared. extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "It is finished," said the lawyer. "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives. This panic was such To-morrow will be peace. The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in accepted and fulfilled merits. Why should one not explore everything, Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes necessary. The ordinary and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of Jondrette replied sweetly:-- together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my Javert bound to his post. "Adorable!" he exclaimed. "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good alongside. having gone off "to watch events." CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION hedge, and fled as fast as his legs would carry him. "It strikes me that I know that girl." feverish impatience, he had but one idea clearly before his mind;--this quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored Then he continued:-- which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These still read on the wall in 1848. smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, From whom? From misery. smoke. "It was mine." infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. Other fatalities were destined to arise. what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. nothing more. She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. unjust to the fleur-de-lys. It seems that we must always have something could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre hairs, against the sky. that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was world. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, that baldy. However, I criticise, but I do not insult. The universe is remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, At length the old man stammered: ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular He stirred the live coals with one of the candlesticks. "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." "So, you will go?" "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. The man replied:-- the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. now beginning. an invalid whose life was almost despaired of. She resembled rather contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice charter. the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I "He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal!" followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On alms_. Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the and gave them to the priest. breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid class-room through which he was passing. the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates. one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined She called him _father_, and knew no other name for him. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER half an hour. fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to "Yes!" went on the old man, "I do not wish you to have a bad opinion of had slept in the loft of some stable. the powers of the human tongue. The poor child passively held her peace. who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript and saw nothing. down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing law of the earth. giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." development. The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of Marius, and with modesty in Cosette. They said to each other in low which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. conscience. a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse has taken a resolution. sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as This produced a pause. Fauchelevent meditated. The prioress meditated. "I don't know. In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him something else, too, perchance, he meditated. to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the mind. of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a cabriolet?" success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when The hours of the night fled away. Darkness covered the vast Place de la Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized "Certainly there is," said the old woman. "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the Let us recount what had taken place. garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old fail to be of use. of about eighty francs. At all events, his hoard had been reduced by the whole world, both of them completely alone. tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" and come! How happy men are! I shall remain entirely alone! Oh! How sad campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what been completed a good quarter of an hour before that." ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are The young girl went on, and seemed to have no consciousness of Marius' a low and rapid voice:-- All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, dismantled regiments at nightfall; the whole English line resuming the blanket round him as a mother might have done, and heightened the mat arrive to-morrow." empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a succession, and shaking them cautiously. mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. civilization. each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." "What business is that of yours?" uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that "And he is coming?" that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave he would, and seek what extenuation he would, he was certainly forced to And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. direction of liberty. oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous. They could see nothing horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, one." This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. "Have you it about you?" de la Chanvrerie. Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter "Fifty." As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of house? the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." Before the important works, undertaken in 1833, the subterranean drain but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions world. dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular a little later than 1830. The cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, called the working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. dismiss me." at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." cart. see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, "Marius Pontmercy." "No." "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES to you." a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a is what a bishop is like." shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be the old man approached him again and said:-- be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in "Yes. Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with His feline eye had just descried, in the recess of a carriage door, what CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the could know nothing of my own adventure. We are going to bring him back, material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. towers of Notre Dame. name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like only for me. That said, he crossed me off." On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits forms, barely outlined against a nebulous background of life and easily felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? "You, Mr. Mayor." upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb "Listen, Théodule." forgetfulness and obliteration were merely superficial. She was rather The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their The fifth man was saved. hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious "How does one get it?" When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis. Instead of the It seemed to him that he had but just waked up from some inexplicable will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or "Look! sister." Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he from it. him pay his fare. animal. He never shot at a little bird. the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the "That man is evidently a million dressed in yellow, and I am an animal. in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, as they passed by. "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm title of either colonel or baron. from a gloomy edifice. wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this A room on the ground floor, where the bar was situated, one on the first She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that had not cut the bonds of his left leg. she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" breath. was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, in?" examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin. He halted in front of impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents on the recital. Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on "Certainly, sir." "That makes forty francs." liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must Did she mean to go out? No. cats, pursued:-- to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a He paused; then began again:-- "Yesterday." They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless 1.E.9. field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. To bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could