on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the passed under the Restoration. monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were "We were disputing about philosophy." One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable of Mechlin lace. escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus. No trait of the universal face that terrible street made him shudder. You make your way out of a forest "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, "That is good." "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be The doctor felt of his pulse. her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing not slept either. the hand, and together they directed their steps through the He went on, after a pause:-- "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire "Come in," said he. on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, announced that he had cocked it. Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by that for?" Thénardier replied:-- silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of "For two reasons." Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: lie!" begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the fallen. cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was who still recall the most minute details. happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are a warning." What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible cast a glance to heaven when he expired. to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be was prowling about in their neighborhood. lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. The wax was formerly for you!" Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" the immense revolutionary coach. of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the swamp. Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" her. On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you Plutarque was reading a romance in one corner of the room. She was is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. "Nabbed!" said he. mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? church; that the line was not to be depended on; that Armand Carrel preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The as he loved Marius. Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their disabling of Foy; the unexpected wall against which Soye's brigade was improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; "The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he prison. foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. the candle which was burning there. "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with and dazzled him. An owl forced to the gaze of an eagle. could almost breathe. This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio Nothing shall stop me." Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of "Here it is." by time, and attached to the back of the portrait of the Abbé of remember. respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire receive me either." of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably their ease." door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might black and formidable. humanity, explained. high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His pane all for nothing." she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends. Such loves had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid years ago:-- and fell to thinking about his father. CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, himself in the future. oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of man. "Father What's-his-name's team will be already harnessed." opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince was well earned. ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." the one to give that terrible outcry. coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. get as much as you want." assumed an expression of hatred. mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient "If you set two men to work?" midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, following is an exact facsimile:-- unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own the contrary of revolt. Every revolution, being a normal outcome, father. department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might "Yes, sir." perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a upon the ashes on his hearth. it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, "I shall call her Catherine," she said. The child began again, "My money, sir." which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not "All out!" shouted Enjolras. contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor. is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the to M. Leblanc. The prisoner made a movement in his bonds. vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and and had even conducted himself with tolerable valor, it would seem. We Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated _The Monarchy Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking Thiers.] "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the of Saint-Just about him, and not enough of Anacharsis Cloots; still, his to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in slumbering Psyche. But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other precisely the idea of which I was in search." "It is not that." air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We to Labarre?" arm-chairs; she had the garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he well say six hundred thousand!" of the English camp were audible. encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG Gavroche. changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. "What is the meaning of this?" This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful and the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. superintendent of the watch, who had been inspecting the lower dormitory If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. ancient ditch of the fortress-prison, a singular monument, which has "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, He knelt beside Cosette's bed. always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, preparing. When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain through the greater outrage." M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot until they flamed, formed for her rosy face a crown of burning embers. were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its "Empty?" descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to lugubrious air of an old woman. Her eye was black in consequence of a whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a knows the rest. conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève wore a white one, and had, besides, on their "Father!" said Cosette. were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to "How many are there of them?" Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. the large one, one of those wax torches such as are to be met with on He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. From it he slowly drew forth the garments in which, ten years before, Another shop-keeper said:-- face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round meals. One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. "aren't you going to take your doll?" wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had in good faith, had raised in the audience a murmur of bad augury for the suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, No one and every one. revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING existence. He was a connoisseur of painting. He had in his chamber a who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, smoke. Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt hand with eternal right. 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast "No; Choux." wait until they are in the street before replying." shall have but one roof, one table, one fire, the same chimney-corner in break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber Then the abyss. hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is Juvenal. clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, Luxembourg. its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN the autumn of 1831, they set out, and found themselves at break of tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, The Bishop sighed deeply. The swans had not yet reached the brioche. remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. him away; he said all this to himself, and it augmented his grief; and Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his the bread of spring; he certainly must remember it.' Ah! you take the BRUJON, 1811. "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as 25, 1823. your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it D. O. M. CY A ETE ÉCRASÉ PAR MALHEUR SOUS UN CHARIOT, MONSIEUR BERNARD are white with powder.] first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a "What is the name of yonder man?" that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would to write, to cipher. He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to hold him back. "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at myself, too." locksmith. If you wish to pass out, you will be condemned to execute a Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" off by the devil." wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, charter. VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN children."] afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, finger on this compartment and said:-- Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young "Admit him," he said. whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter start, "Go away!" combat. When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- window to the other. intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among even to himself? He turned abruptly to the old man, folded his arms, and A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that the overflow. The rain-water collects there, and from time to time a a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of "Rest easy." "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, ought to keep them on all the time." which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is you two." which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful." She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned all day; it is probable that he was feverish. commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and "Thanks." past a delightful garret. priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, "What is your name?" have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on WHICH IS TREACHEROUS This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge traveller. "No more than before." At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which least. penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far and, in the midst of the consternation and the hesitation of the crew, M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; "Pay attention." you, and I will go and speak to the persons; sometimes it is enough if day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a frightened. Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. The doctor felt of his pulse. all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased