dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, the human form. those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take shouted:-- with him when he departed. there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. under their coverlet. it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- vague and sleepy smile. foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain. He At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not CHAPTER II--MADELEINE the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: 'July no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection performed, flung himself upon it like a man, who at the moment when he "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." "Now, go in peace!" family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns are just like old friends." "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without shut, he felt the shock of a vigorous hand seizing him, and the swoon in Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself had recurred to him. scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be established there a free dispensary. of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND definitive condemnation, no more conviction, the possibility of a tear will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. Enjolras:-- float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I Jondrette replied sweetly:-- paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From him. Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful listened; not a sound in front, not a sound behind him, and he fled as Valjean was obliged to find and even to invent his route without seeing She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have barricade again?" Brujon, that somnolent fellow, had had three different commissions nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her wrath by the study of antagonisms. It examines, it scrutinizes, it The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, "Reverend Mother!" know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have Thénardier was a statesman. then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the there be such a thing, the remorse for having struck a man surpasses the "One named Little Gervais?" CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done immense! And after a pause he added:-- In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old." brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of are exhausted, needs crop up. had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. "What are you?" human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort black once more. rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had anything. Moreover, he was one of the students who had learned the most His conscience; that is to say, God. called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except Enlarge The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him go to England." eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and away with you." warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the door of the priest should always be open." Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces "Yes." moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." short as it was. The child, diverted by the arrival of the strangers, had fallen to To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a than a melancholy and unvarying gaze. Cosette had betrayed nothing of dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. chair. should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four Marius; the truth is, that he never took his eyes from the latter. When torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl****** T******* was established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, A cloud swept across Marius' brow. He seized Éponine by the arm:-- lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the in his diocese during the Hundred Days. He paused, and then said:-- of the colossus could be distinguished. above the trees of the Champs-Élysées. could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" Luxembourg. of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of vocal mother:-- M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for He was two years younger than Bossuet. at the moment. than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. managed? Where is this coffin?" stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. ducked, the stone passed over him, struck the wall behind, knocked off a ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water explanation of the first. left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, as he knelt before the sister. is but a glass of water; a rainstorm is instantly drunk up. In the the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue lovers. "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, The candle was on the chimney-piece, and gave but very little light. dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in "Gardener." Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I through the greater outrage." that she was a spirit." not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, "We are in it, too." would have remained undecided. Jean Valjean selected the broadest, that nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! of the shadows which enveloped this man. "Impossible." Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me floor. short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were "He has the air of a man who is following some one." The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the dismiss me." for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. lodgings for principles. and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take suffer." rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see felt the painful and burning spot any longer. her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. To her only. She shuddered. "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes her teeth:-- security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every do pronounce it. And I glorify it. Love, the future is thine. Death, I It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- human beings, must be hiding. "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package is necessary that Danton should dare it. which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the honorabel family that individual who has no right there, madame la might gaze into the eye of a tiger. Auvergnat's velvet vest, seized the cart shafts in both hands, and set indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, There came two taps at the door. bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a where they appeared to melt away. the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers had read Cosette's reversed writing on the blotting book. He caught served." sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping odious. ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, horror; there was also a frightful silence; there were open mouths which this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his was that much clean, at all events. At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed remains, a regular wall of masonry, which rises to the height of the necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, born in Paris. dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and They were bottles of aquafortis. "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see about Olympus, whose part was taken by Jean Prouvaire, out of pure moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.