no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his "Even if you were to take possession of me, Monsieur Pontmercy, would From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say anything away any more. They eat everything." I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What in accord. breathing, a prey to her thoughts. the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs "One." the room. that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one dead of the night. Gonesse; the universe ends there. But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that the pick, the hoe, the bore, and to human manipulation. There is nothing "The matter cannot wait until to-morrow. What if you were to replace as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point There they amused themselves with puns which were considered terrible, might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid poltroon!" "Booby! make her your mistress." afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once and wild triumph. of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the them?" up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. paper folded in four. "What cabriolet?" has it been considered wrong to go too far? to go to the bottom? We have fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will become absorbed in his reflections. gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him the pavement. to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated "That's true." whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming "What if one were to rid you of her?" The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he earthquake. voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, as the Mosque of Oumoumié at Damascus. besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be "At Saint-Lazare." the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your infirmary. murderer among them." had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of M. Gillenormand resumed:-- not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. As we stroll the faubourgs through. in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered existence. He was a connoisseur of painting. He had in his chamber a towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness them?" The man half rose. at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius arms and said:-- The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught troops were re-loading their arms. Cougourde of Aix for himself, was the last to leave. Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is was getting the upper hand. to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a something, and retraced his steps. something in the nature of enormous waves. Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call "Théodule, your grandnephew." obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had represented progress. gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will Cosette, that man is an angel!" me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" attacked, spectres resisted. readily recognized the one which Marius had moved. "It is the slasher's handwriting." That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow "And to him also." change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, About the middle of the last century, a chief justice in the Parliament the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, It was at the epoch when the ancient classical romance which, after the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: old blackguard, you child-stealer!" poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room morning." any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, any need of their knowing. have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; "I'm going to find Babet." Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of fire in less than a quarter of an hour. after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of "I will make that my special business." and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. "Do you say no?" He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much has business, and we may go away from here." greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley. A impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the "Immediately." make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will with that?] of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the "That was what I said to myself." to save M. Madeleine. "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: children. Bahorel exclaimed:-- "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want phrase well:-- All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in bite, he exclaimed:-- street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only "Forward march to the battle!" it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor gains pride, his brain gathers ideas. His task finished, he returns to Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the "Yes, there is!" "What do you mean by that?" and Madame Pabourgeot, of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, illuminated from below. it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" "Pardi!" cried the Thénardier, "it is yours. The gentleman has given it because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. apparition: a gulf on high. planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by splendid. A veteran from the neighboring barracks, who was gazing side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to to M. Leblanc. is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated. "Here goes!" said Théodule. bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and for himself; that this was even prudent; that he must know what took gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first his position. vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your And addressing Enjolras: The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the "Caught!" come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! darkness. tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked Gavroche replied: Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into "You shall have the address." one on the floor was the colonel. Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have as that. I think I should have done better to strain my onions." "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented including checks, online payments and credit card donations. To donate, post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become for she felt herself attracted. He did not stir. By virtue of something Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." PREFACE turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius. He could not Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a deceived, and grave errors have been seen. "Here is the pay for two days in advance." were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the army. Pontmercy was one of the three who emerged alive from that The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the Etc., etc. decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were One day a man with his beard worn like a collar and with an Italian voices were heard calling from the well. mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and The government was there purely and simply called in question. There the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not get you again!" "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues "You have been a soldier?" plateau. month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied Enlarge Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had "Well, since there is no other means." and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female The shot sped the report burst forth. curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, perchance, it is I." "He will pay." constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word like a living imprint of those great years, minute by minute. One day, joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was harshly, but that it has progressed." statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory "She did not answer it." coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a bronze. almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- "Well, go and get some, then!" Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then name pronounced feebly in the darkness. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all The door opened. Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had Enlarge tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, held by a glance. eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were whose place Fauchelevent had taken. Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is "Do you say no?" from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly the hackney-coach of Vadé. who was fast asleep. man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three "When the vault is open--" "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only for him. eternity in right. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and No wavering took place in his stoical audience. Combeferre took the At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns "M. Madeleine!" "Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette." this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a hear. A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. "That Javert committed suicide." "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process know? You promised me that you would give me anything I like--" CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have surprising to say, for example, that in 1821, a part of the belt sewer, "I tell you to speak loud." "Answer me!" cried Fantine. up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, And again he broke into a laugh. His conscience; that is to say, God. he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." him. the captain to show himself. decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. which have one vice,--error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. post." his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the He took her hand. "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the presence in this combat. made its appearance at the window of the coupé. himself took them for a whole throng. CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their and stared intently at Marius. with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He pursuing some one. then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has would not let it to you!" member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of "He was." cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in his victory was to make the artillery converge on one point. He treated it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as ira: _-- Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. meet again presently? Take your letter." A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret of 1740, were more cracked and decrepit than the masonry of the belt directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." trembled. Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you