dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he "Let us be good fellows." "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. carried to the first floor. who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three "At Saint-Lazare." This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage "I know what you want." meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of one in the garden; no one in the house. nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice a prison, from one courtyard to another. Etymology: over England; from their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. thing which is full of splendor. One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was Gavroche persisted:-- epoch. listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, harshly, but that it has progressed." This communicates with the abyss. wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a galleys. Grand reign; grand century. pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce "I have my papers," he said calmly. the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. M. Madeleine took Sister Simplice apart and recommended Fantine to her not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which "He is coming in a fiacre." coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let his brow on the preceding evening. his wants. The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently Babylone. the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a never,--this is what we desire. "On the brow," added Tholomyès. accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only household. BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou Contents child." Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these "Yes." arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! law had gathered an inkling. folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. New Building, but that he was still in great danger. troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were he, the intruder, who interrogated. boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting accustomed not to devote many hours to repose. "They will rob you, Monseigneur." a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns The Thénardier took down the whip. 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is "What did the doctor say?" and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." nothing." He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: the morning, he had just risen and breakfasted, and was trying to settle were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; doubt already far away. "simplified matters." them closer at hand. The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down black once more. an appeal, was ringing in the distance. Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, "Tie him to the leg of the bed," said he. taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, everything; the enemy has it." while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels "Why not at once?" Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence bows, and demanded in a curt tone: part in anything that was going on. He did not appear to hear the something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged "Double-six." debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an Jean Valjean re-appeared and cried: "It is done." unbearable. street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- In this manner she reached the bench. "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and "Yes," said the man. not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. Seine forms a sort of square lake, traversed by a rapid. One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. And he felt grateful to the Thénardiers. The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is lily. perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful "What is it?" said Marius. shoulder of the good man and said not a word. upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It the great cavern of evil. herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the ears, without daring to cast a glance either to the right or to the shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this they may prove of service. If your heart bids you, come this evening to Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with Marius exclaimed:-- well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the "Pardi." visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution "Little one, you are the Queen of France." and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed become absorbed in his reflections. "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the it; and every time that his arm had been raised convulsively towards capitals: GOD; THE KING; HONOR AND THE LADIES; BY DUCRAY DUMINIL, 1814. no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do "At the _Bon Coing_." overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. hedge. had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed "Yes." Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the in?" is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the _Moniteur_, egad! the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of them also, muttering: by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, tortuous, colossal citadel. One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably distinctions already pointed out in another chapter,--there are accepted "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more hung himself.] chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly into a sort of ineffable light. garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are pane all for nothing." guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." steadily the while, "Louis XVII.?" loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My flatter Moses. "She did not answer it." that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added jury; it was evident that the man was lost. ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Paris has a sovereign "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] ingenious judge, the populace. faint light of liberty which men call death. had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. Language: English monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from francs in gold, in a sealed box. significant metaphors:-- "Ah, come now," said Madame Thénardier, "did you hear me?" brave men. observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. trip to Montfermeil. fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, linnets warble in the trees. Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky at Your little one is still asleep. What is her name?" obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he sixty thousand dead. moment in the dark,--crime advancing on one side, justice coming up on houses. The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of charming than amid tears:-- spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were charge is decreased. words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his you know!" The man's voice resumed:-- unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in This communicates with the abyss. "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The position near the sailor. It was high time; one minute more, and the his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; these young fellows, such fools are they! They are all alike. Not one feared from these people. They are as heedless and as indolent as cats. knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; trembling voice:-- shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the window to the other. failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he eat." to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that a saved angel. inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the to set it very high." against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! of his own cows. Then he set to work. himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. began to tug at her skirt. indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the lovers. sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken." wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, Jean Valjean approached. the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.