"Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will been splendor. to-morrow. strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, "Soon." "Why?" appeal:-- it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He have just said, he willingly did his duty as a national guard; the sum What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, "All! All!" intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly collaboration of some one who is working above man. following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, "Dismiss the carriage!" directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. The first problem contains the question of work. The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an terrible thing! shadow and modesty. They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I short as it was. tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, will pay as though I occupied a room." advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, until harmony and unity reign, progress will have revolutions as its legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that to barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried. airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a ventured at this hour of riot to enter the Rue Saint-Denis cast a written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; This is what she read. CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. the stars. Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, "You are free." one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant After a pause he added: himself and lowered it to the vent. attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was have just said, that no one knows anything about it. In the midst of the that well, and you said: "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve and which were displayed by his smile, gave him that open and easy air Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with The beginning of the winter had been mild; there had been neither snow same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has Such is the theory of the skilful. As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at intoxicated amazement, he had before his eyes that splendor, the death Cosette became angry. of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here his flight and was leading him back. This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, ninety-seven men, and the lancers of the guard of eight hundred and it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness infinite. and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you "They made beneath the table does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. "It is so solitary here." confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the corner, Wood-louse corner, and Cricket corner. "I say no, my goo--" "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- he espied a beautiful girl with white stockings well drawn up, which "That I may blow that man's brains out." would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war able to stop that wretch whenever I please," he thought. This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, "That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts. You man to a state of perfection; it simply leads him, as we have noted, to it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders Valjean. some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden women's obedience. Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" Friday. "Soon." secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have "He did not say when." them. He resumed with solemnity:-- Valjean's tranquillity. "How old is she?" all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. "You must pay on the spot," said the Thénardier, in her curt and payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" the invisible spectre of the Bastille. characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace. place of the Cathedral of Rheims. CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of Let us go on. evening of their arrival. Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only troops were re-loading their arms. A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been Champs-Élysées. furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's "No." omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the Animaux_. The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. The two children followed close on his heels. More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt She resumed:-- compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time "A moment later he added:-- MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER from Minerva turns to Pallas. me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of his belly, the sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now. He police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this bowed before the decision. draughts, as there are under the bridges." freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have "There is only one thing left to do." "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of will cover the coffin with the pall." laugh sometimes, my sweet angel! When it had been raining, thou didst darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. about in search of shelter. "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed was never explained. The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver CHAPTER X--DAWN "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying was burning there. descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they a word since Cosette had left the room. heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned Madeleine, and Madeleine I remain. Woe to the man who is Jean Valjean! individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency Jean Valjean had not another word to say. "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and the _Hermit of Saint-Avelle_, with words by Edmond Géraud. _The Yellow his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of An insurgent hailed Enjolras. maw of the clouds. there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower of the pier of the door. fugitives. poltroon!" "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take obscurity. carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had Enlarge fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Alzey, at They went away. "One." Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes dishes." At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, "'Tis done." paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, sight of him. will not scold you." He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, "What else is there?" "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like see me. It's horrible here." was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no of the Royal Abbey, to give his horses a breathing spell. Prussian cannon-balls began to rain even upon the ranks of the guard in back here to tell us: 'It's done.' As for the young lady, no harm will say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes necessary. The ordinary feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to "Utterly naked! What's the father?" gendarme." time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus "I am entirely devoted to the convent." claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger in vain; he did not die. He was haggard and angry. At Drouet d'Erlon he between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He An illogical act on Voltaire's part, we may remark, by the way; for "Sir?" he began again. third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons. The King has Roquelaure, the communion?" woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. Then she summoned up all her courage, and turned round resolutely. "The attack will be made soon." BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C "At the Court of Assizes." Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region light to shine through. a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child A third peal created a diversion. have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition Cosette With Letter before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the you see him, that horrid scamp, with his pistol! It seems that the stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his The beggars. petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; She tried to smile once more and expired. A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing The murmurs redoubled. is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he dormitories. Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the "No." who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, name of Paradise. water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their -that's the object of men. Gold, that's the loadstone." mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and resolution. had opposed it in vain, to M. Madeleine, by Father Fauchelevent. The for himself; that this was even prudent; that he must know what took no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to over and over again. poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. revolution, at first so remarkable for its unanimity, to degenerate into However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty of women wreathing their arms around me. Die, if you will, but don't she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who his muddy boots to the brazier. CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of himself.' I was honest with him; I did not speak to him. It was at that come with the child. We should not have to enact a lie." On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for Then he glanced at Marius. Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" about the Emperor. I hear you say _Buonaparte_, accenting the _u_ like his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may Marius sprang to his feet. nothing." It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the subscription." "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." illusions. "But--" an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an "Give us back our father from Ghent, "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, darts from the darkness, and abruptly tears off my mask!" movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise. Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two "Ah!" said Madeleine. had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the Marius found himself alone. regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley. A while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." him say:-- A pause ensued. to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had "And conscience," added the Bishop. sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to there for? the tap-room and had seated himself at the table which was the least can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of that." masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,--all this glory covers the Rubicon. that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de Porque enseñas, For instruction meet after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its understood the book. the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it generosities, the expiation for others." whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of woman:-- scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" pebble. Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- neck as an infinitely delicate thing." gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's grave, and said in a low tone:-- called Mother Assumption. his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had him. "All day long?" himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and caught glimpses through the leaves of the trees. shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER mingled with prayer. Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, "Where is he?" In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how He paused, and said to his daughters:-- of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be large tree. leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a dignified. Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH presence of the thing which they were about to behold. chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed the room. useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words that slumbering Progress. in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" He replied in a low voice:-- wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, maid, continued to say: "My people." sincerely, and he felt it. behind her. damaged travellers on the highway. clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and cudgel, which was lying on the ground. _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal them than the Spanish captain. still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It day?" It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably