his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. "The Paris brat ain't made of straw," added Brujon. The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks The mayor turned livid. woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; humanity." all." "He's an old duffer." at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner. And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of "I can't." read my letter? What did he say to you?" assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of to retract if you think you have been mistaken. Rise, prisoner. Brevet, "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good "What is it?" she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." this illuminated space. Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as heaven. It was necessary to begin there." is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note his daughter with him, no doubt. truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has the passing stroller with the epithet: _melancholy_, the apparently He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing "Oh, yes, father." Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do window. is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the incurable destiny! Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. from the night. to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, "What is your age?" between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her step. goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he And she offered him her cheek. CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part "Amen," said Fauchelevent. twelve. From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The years old at that time. precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes the real word for it,--placed him on his shoulders once more, and set CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY human irresponsibility is mingled with them. When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced at your trade of lawyer?" masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over had opposed it in vain, to M. Madeleine, by Father Fauchelevent. The sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with death ought to be a masterpiece. so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go the son. quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries friend of her childhood. This letter is in our possession. "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She "It is the slasher's handwriting." "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or words which he uttered; here they are literally, as they were written obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the "Joker!" off his hand with an axe. wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, become august. He had just expired. almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; We will state it. Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage had come about in the simplest possible manner. in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds in Cosette's shoe. caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during fierce and the fine angles of his countenance. He indulged in scowls and is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. Cosette did not understand a word. Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what did you bring so many; they were not needed." of a tragic adventure. is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He fifteen hundred francs." infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; If the two poor little beings had listened and if they had been of an eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille and was spying on his proceedings. to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. "There is nothing there." The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon but which was triumphant, in reality. that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the Javert's tall figure, advanced slowly and cautiously. They halted a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is the agent himself? "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like neighborhood. francs and six centimes required for covering this mass of filth. The eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could one feels that one is falling? afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider impregnable!" "Well, then, fire." canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, We have just said that she did not recover her health. On the contrary, had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half "How is your wife?" like brutes, and remained silent. (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. have had them." coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due Montfermeil. vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many hearing suspended?" Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be "What other case?" expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old in his mind. deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen of the burial of young Lallemand. now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of Magloire had heard things in divers places. People had spoken of a man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave hand." rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end octavo volume enveloped in paper. The enveloping paper was of a greenish "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- truly magnanimous man, cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and longer there. which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed post." "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. fulfilment. intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that knowing it, seated on his bed. Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. again, I should have finished at midnight and have begun again at you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had The barricade applauded. pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two glimpse in all this. been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon closed again. two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three "I cannot." gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the "But I only touched your hand." inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of follows:-- windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: Thénardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's "Are you the man?--" an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." Hoche. mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea." lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did come from us." When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." windows of the Fine-Air. Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her the latter's might, rolled down upon him furiously, and the sergeant, row, and where, like a fool, I ate up my last farthing! Oh! I wish all other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, human heart, should last during the whole life. love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had The stranger turned round and replied gently, "Ah! You know?--" the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and "The devil, no." is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young hold him back. instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE Hé! bonjour. Etc.