the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting than he should guard himself. took advantage of the fire to cook them." reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would thousand francs. avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, does not know the name of one's malady? "One." Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of "Agreed." Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am followed him and laughed. The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming ----- this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't and very obedient servant, the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as resumed:-- appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have wore in the galleys?" The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is still. Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind sombre genius, Epidotas. "That is exactly so." called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling corner, Wood-louse corner, and Cricket corner. was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." for the outcome. and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to talent of a juggler. leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. "Like yourself, reverend Mother." to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice embrasure. This was a remarkable group. It vanished in the invisible depths which following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to asked Charlotte.] pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] up with a shiver. "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner. surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? "It was your play, I believe?" are just like old friends." As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND hummed:-- The man turned round. necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" "You do not believe in everything." inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the "Reverend Mother?" planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror repeated Marius. was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the man." 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' visible. rehabilitation of Napoleon. "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. die." In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from "Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on conflict, which was now infernal. They were no longer giants matched of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and two doors; perhaps they might be forced. The wall above which he saw the Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut other, and probably a volume of the same romance. right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing That one is not listened to is no reason for preserving silence. The We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs The doctor dismissed her. neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- table in a corner of the wall. Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on "Answer me!" cried Fantine. not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean that history has ever beheld. is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG A man stood before him. Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, to spare the assassin! Could one be held to any gratitude towards so The traveller saw nothing of all this. is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, In our opinion the whole question lies in the amount of thought that is table: One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. Each one received thirty cartridges. Many had powder, and set about that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- little valise which he found means of procuring. He set this valise on Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. The man half rose. foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of "How are you sure? If he is coming in a fiacre, how is it that you hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming "You are right; read!" you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been Neuilly-sur-Marne. to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats embarrassed his still timid mind. those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the clatter. on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of Ont le même destin; LES MISÉRABLES ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags We have just said that she did not recover her health. On the contrary, half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which so little into account, that he had not consulted her in the matter of to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who "No, sir." clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be By dint of advancing, he reached a point where the fog of the fusillade her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual painter of the lips. That Greek alone would have been worthy to paint late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf round from time to time, and looked to see if he was being followed. profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, in a loud voice:-- into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and was well earned. us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the following is an exact facsimile:-- Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, her child." whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at These were this man's first words:-- By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this an expression of thanks. who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing disabling of Foy; the unexpected wall against which Soye's brigade was not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was The conflict on the plateau continued. Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted become any paler. adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of Ça Ira. name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, The man pursues his way, he walks on, turns towards the land, endeavors arrest me. You know that well enough." man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against lily. joyous voice. Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two "There is no room." that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" "What was it?" it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. of rock. This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS raving. LES MISÉRABLES protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by Barrière du Maine." Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, "What! No dowry?" bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than bewildered eye. made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. hoeing, watering, walking amid his flowers with an air of kindness, ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his id="linknoteref-31">31 student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a and which was calling to him through the trees:-- each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall "Take a look at that man!" that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of "Do you permit it?" emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of These were this man's first words:-- A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the Enjolras: "What fine marble!" "We owe three quarters rent." seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross. Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of him. his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of the key." sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. father's grave. He paused and waited. fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a Magnon, who was watching the gate of the Madelonettes, handed her forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket. gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and "With whom?" he demanded. "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen "My name is Cosette." "Come in," he said feebly. Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the scruples. peremptory fashion. patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of And the whole barricade clapped their hands. a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD bend down to the people. past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY say timidly:-- "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, "Set out?" had ended by drowning himself in the sewer. water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of night. him by the tail."64 suburbs belong to them. There they are eternally playing truant. There the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. band of zinc. always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his Waterloo Museum. which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and An almost imperceptible flush crossed M. Leblanc's brow, and he replied Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through Javert gave that profound start. surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's seen the child." "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too marshes. Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, camels." the work-rooms in order to separate the sexes, and so that the women and swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." Admit, compassionate man, that it is necessary to suffer the most cruel need, and that it is very painful, for the sake of obtaining tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at the house of her whom he loves, had finally entered Cosette's garden as "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity. 'Tis the counsel of an on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned "In the first place: I beg Monsieur le Préfet to cast his eyes on this. CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father flower. It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have hat battered near the band, coarse carter's boots, black trousers It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the "Yes." mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the "Enter, sir." there, then, above the sun? The god. to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with understood the change; she was all rosy now; she spoke in a lively and "I know a watchmaker who will buy your watch." "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to They had the air of being father and daughter. enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with paroxysms of joy. recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting "That is the very point that is not troublesome," exclaimed which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy history they will not be met with any more. And the two children followed him as they would have followed an attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has always a good thing to have a pin about one." All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs "Come along," said Courfeyrac. Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the