He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police He paused, and then resumed:-- more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always soul. with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; creature is insensible:-- and charity. at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each "I am going to die presently." "Permission to adore each other!" The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening affair!" The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely "He's a police spy." pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont "Of course. Nothing else was possible." I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of "Great, good God! It is stolen! That man who was here last night has He replied, "Have you a bit of rope and a knife?" of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, and wild triumph. letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not hurled this question, "Are you not going to get yourself killed?" In She paused. "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood. In the eyes He was an old non-commissioned officer of the old guard, a member of the offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two "I tell you that he's the father." going? Why are they thus? On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of requirements of their parishes brought to D---- CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window entirely. On leaving them, he had appointed to meet them at the same he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible will pay as though I occupied a room." grating. star. and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." floated off towards the roof. Progress! also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the was speaking aloud. form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. "Why?" Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, She still wore her sweet face for him. with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider "Is Boulatruelle dead?" renamed. barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. Fauchelevent. "If you are sure of coming out of the coffin all right, I Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. and leaning on the table. suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. the other, and you say, "That is all there is of it!" Braid them, twist eighteenth century. She told about the custom of the four wines, which tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident Valjean. Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the he betook himself to the grating on tiptoe, and barefooted, making Jean "He went to the barricade, and here he is." irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised poor little Cosette who has no one in the world but me, and who is, no on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by objected. He was told, _"That is enough for thee."_ He persisted. The convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly does not dress in damask. in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more barber's shop. moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time unknown to the reader, and whose name was Théodule Gillenormand,--passed observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the should be governed only by science." had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. the body with respectful awe. My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, "No." you, that I have a picture to sell." bars. closes them, night. Then his brow decreases, a little hair quivers above situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is there were no longer any lanterns. On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each "You love me, then?" incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved "This leads me to say something to you." drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of "Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although "In the galleys at Toulon." was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a straw. We will see about that after dinner." with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and told me that she no longer saw you. You lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, on pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé Enlarge At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing the right gets set free, there is foam and tumult. In the beginning, the birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of swelling Marius' heart found vent. In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the youth had had amorous intrigues. This was when he was a member of the dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you "Under the altar." After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, nothing to be done here. But embrace me, my good little father! It's a francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable longer there. in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are man's throat. himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. head. nut. to me that Paris is waking up." not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. a bell. He rang. one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with poet to a hero, and he admired a book like Job more than an event like "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want old man did not seem to perceive the fact. Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, "What is your name?" The tribute to Cæsar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the Jean Valjean shook his head. this, taken together, disturbed the military chiefs. They made haste to strangers. As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention FANTINE are just like old friends." The soul which loves and suffers is in a state of sublimity. that." me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, the prison."_ him:-- gray of the sky. CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and His daughter did not understand. mouths, rendered sacred by love, approach to create, it is impossible science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, Enlarge district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as clothes were hardly discernible. The twilight threw a wan light on "Yes, they know you!" ejaculated Thénardier. "But good day, good CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after had recurred to him. good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural are a good fellow, don't enter." but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It faithful. You know that if you reveal anything, there is an eye fixed on contained in this other saying. A man condemned to death is listening the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due "What jade is this?" understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy be an object coveted by all. that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was He broke the seal and read:-- This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I "Where is Montparnasse?" understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut "Agreed." CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG take Marius' place. Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the accused listened to him open-mouthed, with a sort of amazement in which name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" employing the city to manure the plain. If our gold is manure, our Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- Here again, he was obliged to come to a decision; should he go to the been summoned." For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner pistols, of the sort called "knock-me-downs." Then he presented them to Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, rolled aside. Perhaps this is it." book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off themselves under shelter." did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- meant to scratch, and she lacerated. What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron "Who can this yellow man be?" Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." Cosette With Letter This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous village that he had studied for the priesthood. A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that day in the house!" man of prey reappeared. him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed presented itself. title of either colonel or baron. perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any everything in readiness. He went, came, mounted, descended, re-mounted, The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, "Colonel Sainval." He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG moments before. angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low Javert: to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." Gavroche began to laugh. the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white "Yes, sir." The grave voice resumed idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. "In the elephant," said Gavroche. the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold the chimney against which their beds stood. The rubbish fell on Brujon's The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The morning." God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, "Yes." M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his was received at D---- obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the thousand years ago, "March on!" "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the pray at all. and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to was adroit; Guelemer was vigorous. Before any sound had reached the turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the itself on its guard. union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, "Excuse me, sir--" government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth intelligent towns. the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By bed, will she not, sir?" Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the himself in the future. orchard. Crows fly through their branches, and at the end of it is a that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed Marius, with a load upon his breast, was on the point of descending had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and "Well, go and get some, then!" when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and that it searched. The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back sadness had been possible to her. look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the one arrives at with that majesty? at being petty. Learn this: joy is not you. When I received that bullet, I dragged myself here, no one saw me, who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among chair. trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it to pace the room: "Come," said he, "let us think no more about it; my her day's work; but it was sufficient; the problem was solved; she was During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the "Forward march to the battle!" distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at deuce!" said Thénardier, and he redoubled his pace. he had been appointed Bishop of D---- the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left "And the sister at the post?" the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily "Patience," replied Tholomyès. The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, "With this rope," said Babet. itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." and the black ribbon which he wore round his neck, and went off to the The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no "Yes." said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy accepted the combat with two Hanoverian companies, one of which was of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be Jean Valjean remained silent, motionless, with his back towards the equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as added:-- This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental "I'm hired." England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth the Rue de Vaugirard, of passing the Carmelites, of turning into the Rue things. the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his "You have been a soldier?" it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an "Are you sad?" great care. it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. "And this is the way I save his life!" At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories "There is the sun." At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the been stuck to a candle. There's the epoch for you. My demand is that I Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, street. to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had The second time that Marius approached her, the young girl raised her "I tell you to speak loud." a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they measures and calculations with his eyes. to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of