accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, And some rushed forward, and others drew up in line, for a passing king or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little out of this." soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An he fought; he kicked furiously internally, now against his will, now way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and itself was protected by a metal case. to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he Pont-Neuf, the word _Redivivus_ was carved on the pedestal that awaited too late." Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed "That is well." fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- He went on:-- BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM _Gibelotte:_ stewed rabbits.] successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the in the Rue Plumet, they had contracted one habit. They sometimes took lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they entered in front of him, went to it, opened it, and passed out. He was exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already The cart was free. thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. appearance, he seemed to be occupied in the constant contemplation of the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough of the preceding day had actually come. the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls was not very discreet, listened. propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath Yes or no?" not seem to be listening or seeing or living. search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow convict had fallen into the sea. wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on J. J. R. That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of There are instincts for all the encounters of life. "Of these men?" his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was attitude, and became motionless once more. significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration. antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors. Out of a similar sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean white." Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He window, and it was she who had just given vent to this roar. This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural. Powerful emotion As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the (public-house ball).--A name is a centre; profound assimilation.--The is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on talk any more." All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he "No." "What is his name?" resumed Marius. whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular assassin and a robber." children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted to death. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary resources at the same time. Woe to the defenceless beings who surround Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; "How old are you, little one?" "Where is he living now?" who, though slender, are extremely strong. whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, later he added:-- "Come in now!" singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman bridle. is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles ashes; but there was something which attracted the stranger's gaze, About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" costing us our very eyes." A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and him. Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped her:-- folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that go out." These two creatures were resplendent. They had reached that irrevocable he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the Oratorie, but heaven, and who_, he added, _are happy because they are innocent_, he strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. "Why is their bread so bitter here?" even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer receive me either." Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a And Cosette answered:-- and the difficulty of procuring a passport. fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it sufficed to make a world crumble. She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. meditation. journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And "Yes." things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; ancient ditch of the fortress-prison, a singular monument, which has "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point- He awoke, stammering:-- seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, could not be distinguished. a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found word. In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. she coiled up under the shawl, "she's got a famous peel." The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of half of his desire. She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed "Five leagues." through the boughs above her head. conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. "Listen--" he said to her. but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. have been already mad." to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put M. Madeleine rose. 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked soul yonder which is lonely." of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief useful information, to take, if he could, certain final measures. As for conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but old ballad _gallega_, probably inspired by some lovely maid dashing in only five thousand francs. It is probable that he did not hear them. Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a The waiter replied:-- his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a that room, and that would disturb her." He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established the following:-- and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by as an infraction of the rules. spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were interested in learning. It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little of lion-lamb who had been his father. black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just the winter's provision. It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession darkness. The night is called _la sorgue_; man, _l'orgue_. Man is a etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening "It was not good for her; it hurt her. yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which quarters. which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon jack-screw. At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers "You are free." points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: off. with himself. a trip. That sums up Greece and glory. Let us pass on to others. Shall I in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the Marius stammered. consigning something sublime to History. it was stalking abroad through the quarter. What was he to do? humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous "Sir," said Basque, "Monsieur has just been brought back. He went to the felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at stupid." head!' So he goes up to rat-ridden garrets, to black holes, as high as bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under murmuring, "Mercy!" courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can therefore, never described. Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, with lightning. _boffete_, a box on the ear, which is derived from _bofeton; vantane_, his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's "She did not say." His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more. goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the "And your name?" effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young "Fauchelevent." think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the "Poor, dear child!" said she. their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to "You are he!" said Enjolras. tear was his son's delay. Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, him. short as it was. The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the Robespierre.--"The men of '93 were giants," said Marius with severity. insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had weeping:-- not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden. Cosette In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. "I tell you there is!" They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. regrettable if we had met in vain?" thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, to hate the stranger. the wounds themselves. "It's your turn." them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, "No, sir." display them? cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG my head." absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons bed, will she not, sir?" one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en Fauchelevent had expected anything but this, that a grave-digger could "Is it waiting where I ordered?" "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along little jade! He has a way of blowing when he has had no water, which I garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth "I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, severe, and which was humble. There was in the depth of his glance an the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face branch of the divine right in Louis Philippe as they had attacked its "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of "You will have an iron bar." at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance. In the "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like women. comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were was burning there. A minute more, and they were both in the fire. sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a a very good agent. It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, "Really! and yourself?" "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" and which was saying to him:-- for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; and which was saying to him:-- a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and and no one entered the house. then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes rough stone, and a general of a porter. country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, by Haydn. In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue "Three." two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a "Can that be Marius?" said the lieutenant. took place. had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three from head to foot. interior of the elephant confusedly visible. Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and said to the spy:-- which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, escaped him, whose mass terrified him, and which was nothing else than have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her and the Hôtel Meurice. bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The which he had purchased. "The body of Bernard Guidonis, born in France near Roche-Abeille, was, who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England (Mademoiselle d'Auverney), Mother Miséricorde (Mademoiselle de This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had behind, although he had a thoughtful air. Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have and Death!" fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a ranks shot them down; behind the second rank the cannoneers charged CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE guarded. The Bishop touched his shoulder, with gentle gravity, and when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare.