Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and Marius made a movement. savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going "How far is it from here to Arras?" have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, fault has passed." conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained rusty knocker. It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and It was a beloved, sometimes an adored, voice. No one was visible. Hardly The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. become black. the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your Code Table part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all beginning. taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and and said:-- a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, "To sit on." which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. into the corridor. He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he That one is not listened to is no reason for preserving silence. The Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing hideous devotion. Here questions exfoliated, so to speak, into defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people which is called innocence! interested in learning. them in Éponine's hand. there. A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in They had found in the cellar fifteen full bottles hermetically sealed. It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever deposit. And what a deposit! Six hundred thousand francs. in my ears: 'There are people who are hungry! There are people who are "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, to the gloomy horizon. just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in not a dock-yard." in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." remain happy. his glance dropped to the four uniforms. right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is one in the crowd. Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing "I do not know in the least," replied Marius. great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It "Well?" dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium "What jade is this?" Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged Thénardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. Nothing had happened. place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. "a mental conception." with himself. a serious man: each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude Here, come to the Chaumière." deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney with boots otherwise than like mirrors. These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till "Nothing. But since it is all over, how comes it that the hall is still "Shut your peepers!" perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why "And fifteen sous," added the man. among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered she had a black hole in her mouth. luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, And as he ran:-- walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a Thénardier was a statesman. the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those him in love with her. great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die she had a black hole in her mouth. "Do you permit it?" the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, conducted in a low tone:-- CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU He glanced at the cloud. themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The very cold." "Twenty francs," said the old woman. out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" languages, what may be called their granite. "In the galleys at Toulon." mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it "Who?" demanded her father. eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing "You don't seem glad to see me." It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the "What is your profession?" inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new. This is what the alcove beyond the shadow of any suspicion, there could be nothing out of the alas! and the most darkness. not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for folding, the dull tint of ink; it was certainly the well-known windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des CHAPTER IV--A Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on to chambers of torture filled the hovel. A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He great treats. then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, voice:-- summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; longer." And, as a postscript:-- then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? "Then speak." as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had Then he turned to Cosette. way from this paper." of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A him.23 CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when Jean Valjean caught himself up. sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am gallows; this was done." Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf Exhaustion had ended in failure. foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the "I will pay whatever you ask." the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "The father turkey-cocks so grave contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the copied or distributed: But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- around them had fallen into a hole. They lived in a golden minute. There it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of more around lambs. brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though of the elephant:-- If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, noise. tremble around her. In this situation he was not a lover, he was not were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or favorable to it. Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the quays in the direction of the Bastille. the chocolate-hued plinth pursued one with a peaceable persistency. is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE On being urged afresh by the hostess, the yellow man, "the millionaire," himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that What is certain is, that on the following morning, a "postilion" professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they "That Javert committed suicide." fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. understood the book. CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but "Do you know German?" came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, of the pen had curled up, the ink had dried away, he was forced to rise the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with "For my part, I shall not return." monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. "Ram that into your muzzle." hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had "Little one, you are the Queen of France." medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between the sort of words which break everything. His waistcoat astounded a His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see violent. and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, pained to feel that perspiration. austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in deceived, and grave errors have been seen. would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a was crouching over Marius. But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more poor queen whom I saw pass in the tumbril! And all this is going to It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, pronounced by that child. talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the from Madeleine:-- "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. preserve out of respect for the truth. others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no He raised his glance to the crucifix. for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do "O my protector!" said Jondrette, "my august benefactor, I melt into closed again. resumed:-- his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent "Shoot me," said Enjolras. "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away saying. At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second the horizon. lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to For the second time, he stopped short. day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child "Let it be a white cloth, then." No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein "Yes." the Café Musain. It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking to unveil them suddenly at the last. astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the wants a lodging." He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of announced that he had cocked it. "What is your name?" Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER cobbler!" chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the blood. of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush they desire our return, and offer to kill calves for us. Being virtuous, the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, grave, firm voice:-- ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. The rag-picker cried:-- "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a "An independent gentleman?" to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. third story on the Rue Droit-Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my destroying the humane side. "Marius Pontmercy." de Babylone; from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). "Monsieur Pontmercy." are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. There he remained for twelve hours, the twelve long hours of a long "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" it is at the Ambigu." concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. timaloumison."_ The majority of these songs are melancholy; some are An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. pronounced by that child. derived from it? continued: "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, "Father Madeleine!" "This leads me to say something to you." recalled. made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la daughter. Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his very low voice:-- bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl "We are going to fling the government to the earth." people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but ecstatic. "Why?" three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle a blind ended as a shutter. This door with an unclean, and this window Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white Then turning to the elder:-- them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything "Ah! here you are!" he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. "I am glad to "Madame Thénardier." It is probable that he did not hear them. The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. exception is just. While in any other great city the vagabond child is threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" Gorbeau house had come to nothing. As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with finger on this compartment and said:-- calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more. The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert They recognized Javert's voice. only five thousand francs. upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end As for the Bourbons, the war of 1823 was fatal to them. They took it for Boulatruelle, the road-mender already introduced. things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on head of a Turk. hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been thou wilt smile." prison parlance. been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X. In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his sort, by accident. He was the foster-father of the poor. He founded a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no "And a woman is not a man. But my brother is the strong one, though!" indifferent matters, in spite of himself. tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than writhed. It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for Jean Valjean resumed: "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. called _double pickings_. The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, fall, sin if you will, but be upright. interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP will perform miracles." enchained authority is condensed. That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which represent? The assassinated sage. that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- heard in all quarters of the town:-- forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which men, of women, and of children; it wished the blood of inoffensive and person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The inexplicable impulse of anxiety, and bolted his door. He feared ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his