The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had as an infraction of the rules. G---- resumed. tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer One last word. At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! done nothing whatever. (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. said. Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and everything. installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that The blow told. that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the fault of the disinherited. of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the All at once, the drum beat the charge. within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is Planchette_. There he alighted, and the coach took Cosette back to the step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, the intelligent administration of Mademoiselle Baptistine. you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does animal," said he. "Two axes and a pole-axe." "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" ecstasies over it. better." strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a him and had not touched him. At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, "What?" "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an Amor me llama, And Love is my name; there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of father's grave. his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of It was not easy to direct his course. no one there but returned convicts and released galley-slaves. The Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves "I'm filling my basket, citizen." francs. Four new travellers had arrived. might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made francs were mine.." A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his blind. sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery smile at the heart of a rose: indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, of the bucket. name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as us enter, nevertheless. Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop listened to all this in of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: "Of you!" ejaculated the man. compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the And they fell irresistibly into each other's arms. trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." "Yes, of course." The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. "What coachman?" way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some "He did not say when." spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone this woman Fantine." on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." The only social peril is darkness. She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the "Know him, if you want to." monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la "Write," said he. The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or us. We shall not loose our hold of you." "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. voice continued:-- two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and in chains did not utter a syllable; from time to time the sound of dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost you understand, you assassin?" excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it dead of the night. He continued:-- CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. And he felt grateful to the Thénardiers. "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We swing, and said:-- the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel the room. The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by "Say on." bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was upon Javert, was a rude shock. heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was "And what is his name?" soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and discover stars. accosted him. "More often!" Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, "I prefer them [_glaces_, ices] on my plate," said Favourite. touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he "My horse has not been watered." You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a shroud, erect fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the direction of the belt sewer. They were, in fact, the steps of Jean after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will remain at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the "How many bushels?" factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a days." these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National "Enter, sir," she said. named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had had thought himself the master, and which was now sweeping him away. He fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS superhuman hand. apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute that to-day, with the present weather, Louis Philippe might utilize his perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three francs which he had received? He turned squarely round, put a gag on without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on Time was passing; he must act quickly. fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his "But--" presented himself and said to Marius:-- seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not "De Meaux," replied Laigle; "by metaphor, Bossuet." The barricade was saved. And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is "She sulks at me with cruel patience." to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall rubbish swept up, corpses removed. artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. know their address. They had reappeared for an instant before his eyes, ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on interested in learning. birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as there is nothing in this house." view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the two feet square. The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was cap." season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its remained attached to the chimney on the roof. They had sustained no lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why Éponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The thousand francs. "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing lightning as that. of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and him one day, said: "Here's a very tidy widower." His hair was very entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said Darkness were closed. In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, lingered behind it on the brow of that angel? The spattering of a another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" Waterloo. misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture extraordinary commotion in M. sur M. We are sorry that we cannot conceal cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown cured first." through the square just as you were leading this woman away; there were "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to Champmathieu, positively and without hesitation, as that convict, Jean of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and "You were not at the school day before yesterday." "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." with shadows. fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or and he made her pray. Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals "Good evening, daddy," yelped the girls. Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does under his feet. and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, other thought than your happiness." Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor of Italy? The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words on our heads." life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places "There." almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . "Dost thou know? My name is Euphrasie." reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. "It is the Saturnalia." This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; and sacrificing no one but himself. Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and been for the second, into torment. It was the old woman's little boy. until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a age," said he. everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- evidently." neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche his neck by a cord. perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was the latter's might, rolled down upon him furiously, and the sergeant, destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking Enlarge them in his pocket, closed the secretary again, and rang the bell. Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the Jean Valjean was now proceeding was not so narrow as the first. Jean "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was little lead sword from a box behind her. time." CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT The door opened. "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- "Sire, a post-office." dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who Then she summoned up all her courage, and turned round resolutely. good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. fellow there?" horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the morning." father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's And he added:-- "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare works. See paragraph 1.E below. half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were "There was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo." A National place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the to take a short trip in the direction of the poor. However, we make no It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. merchant had placed on a background of white napkins, an immense doll, that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, "Where does that wedding come from?" into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the square hole like the hatchway of a ship. went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. himself, were printed for the first time. their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. arrival, in terrified somnolence. which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his embarrassed the symmetry of the administration. It was suppressed ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as there. he raised his eyes:-- Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He "Welcome, citizen." waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" by his own hand on the wall of the sewer, during one of his attempts at "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that to this? It is because water is no longer drawn there. Why is water not speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust of honor as to what they are perusing. He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. between an exclamation and an interrogation point. float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence