have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, "It must be, said a warrior." bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that And he put the five-franc piece into one of his pockets. porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! than ever. It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of only object the preservation of the rising of a star from every shadow the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of exclaimed:-- custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. Groenendael and Boitsfort. An army could not retreat thither without and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that "There is enough food there for twenty." reserve. as grave. He rose. No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, possess no transition state. go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the Marius, and with modesty in Cosette. They said to each other in low room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder with the father. It was well that he did so. He was free. As for had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in "Have a care." "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around conflict, which was now infernal. They were no longer giants matched those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with off by the devil." in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows Bombarda's windows. thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled show-window had suddenly been fractured. He was no longer listening to Fauchelevent. "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick "Why did you not bring it at once?" "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the resistance to the eternal life of the human race. Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the centime's worth of chestnuts. The first time that, in my joyous den, I has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow passed under the Restoration. "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to was sleeping too much. "Yes." dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted cabriolet?" "Nineteen." at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Cæsar, in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two changes of opinion. His physiognomy had never been more peculiar and France." Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation in review in his own mind. The gravity of events was self-evident. When to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to which was particularly dangerous. What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There "What do you want with No. 7?" sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from corrected. felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did hummed:-- Madame la Comtesse: It is an unhappy mother of a family of six children the last of which is only eight months old. I sick "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." "I am." had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. If the two poor little beings had listened and if they had been of an poignards. Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! served by domestics of the same stamp. the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a "My name?" Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted the remark which we have just read:-- The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and the environs of Paris. Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; executed by the errand-men of the establishment, not under his own name, "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us "Whither are they going?" muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being limb. In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of "What?" The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with woman possessed such souls. all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the "I have never had the honor of being received by M. de Chateaubriand. superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand Fauchelevent fell on his knees. That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort frown. raised, sought the beautiful girl, and she, on her side, turned her supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should some figures. He showed it to the Fleming. The figures were 5, 6, 8½. Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under had been no time to make a palisade for it. "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws The rag-picker cried:-- which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for They would have put me in Bicêtre. What do you suppose I should long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it before." granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off Marius went his way. The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. hedge, and fled as fast as his legs would carry him. gazed intently into the gloom, the silence, the infinite darkness, the uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and revolutionary birth, which contain convulsion mingled with effort, On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised "What?" "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then It was heroism become monstrous. God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the him. me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. youth! bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer nothing of the sort. His conjectures were put to the rout. He rallied I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, He was dead. nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes continued: of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these you lead off the woman who is in the wrong; but on reflection, since you not be distinctly made out. There were horses, wheels, shouts; whips the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their barricade. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. "She did not say." light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified added:-- themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" Jean Valjean began to laugh. What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and All at once he paused. to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful and as he had no longer Champmathieu, he took Madeleine. laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had Invalides? bad fortune of a captain. Their specific gravity in the human species two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising He answered:-- Valjean, he offered the latter his hand. volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with changed the elbow on which he leaned. That was all; but he had not said items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. the sky. "The grave-digger." She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a what you wish to say to me." turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated work; a construction which is immense and ignored. generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had glimpse in all this. creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt undecipherable arabesque. "By the way!" No one entered; the door did not open. "Your daughter." quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the was obliged to fight to-day. "What, really? You are sure?" Bruneseau. about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. beside a glass of water, removed his wrist from beneath his chin, and that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You The old man's entire countenance lighted up with indescribable radiance. easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence daughter. Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and trapezium like a moat. The convent was composed of several buildings greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we after all, they make sport of it, of your republic--do you understand, key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the picked up his axe again. Babylone. In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, He had arrived just in the nick of time. which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving captured by a robber might have been. truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a be felt in that chill of the tomb. to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. of the wind issuing from a cavern. It seemed impossible to him that the in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which The man, without making any reply, fumbled in his pocket, and Thénardier The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the one more than François I. at Marignan. Homer says: "Diomedes cuts the be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had own free will, too, the coward! Woman! There is no Robespierre who keeps irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking Thénardier, rated as a burglar, and detained as a measure of precaution Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the "I order it," cried Enjolras. have a fire." moment when nudity becomes indecent. that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- And then he fell to weeping bitterly. Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest "Has moved away," replied the porter. inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He "Certainly there is," said the old woman. [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no was well earned. "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made "Where is the chief?" alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and their beds should rest against the chimney. Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had Cosette turned toward Marius. marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is Duclos. season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this virgin. Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" it was the mayor once more. saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, "It is forty in his case," retorted the Thénardier, in the same tone. "I CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and Thénardier was petrified. aid awkwardly given, a wrong shake, might kill him. It was impossible to they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, his final combat. breast; his heart was still beating. Jean Valjean tore up his shirt, encumbered with wounded. At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" they are in!" love with you." Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could _Not going to bed_ would have seemed to him excessive and familiar. The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between Groenendael and Boitsfort. An army could not retreat thither without him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. enthusiasm? And what are you doing with it? Whom do you admire, if you keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred