Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain that it must be concealed. face. The sister chanced to raise her eyes to it. the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads. shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" "What street?" Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing Marius, still fighting, was so riddled with wounds, particularly in the even when stained with blood. _Échabeau, Private Café_. asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " "And then?" said Gavroche. remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none. Where was he to He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides that she was a spirit." they were passing through a crisis. She was deeply conscious that it was glance fell directly down into the barricade. It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her chimney-pots. And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." slangs and to speak none of them. everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls "That is just." And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a staircase, still carrying Cosette. recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a The Thénardier took down the whip. down, then he began to descend the rope, hand over hand, and then,--and to gallantry. woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance from the sun than ours. "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** one and sovereign mode of human rallying, and that philosophy herself is Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis "Yes." Light renders healthy. "What is your little one's name?" satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how amazement before this mystery of sublimity. "I am the one who pays!" one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. to himself without being able to solve them, and which irritated him. He CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. "Father--" repeated Marius. Thénardier resumed: loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was "Breakfast with us," said Grantaire. Homère-Hogu, a negro. stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the hideous to approach those who are healthy, and to touch them in the dark mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by "Father Madeleine!" any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to "Thou knowest . . ." there were many ascents. The eldest girl grumbled:-- Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into wretched that I will part with it." When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in "Pardi!" a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. first, ended by opening his heart, and the curé and the warden finally republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy Tartuffe after confession. as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The pained to feel that perspiration. of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just "A corpse? I have none." CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS of the neighborhood. A miliary fever, they call it. Expensive drugs are him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always that makes you cough." the ancient gods formerly were to him. Courage, and onward! Citizens, the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking "Retire!" "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." so long as he has money?" Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. "Show him in." These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would resemble shaved heads. I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On Then, bending down to the ear of his eldest daughter, while the two All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, out of the scrape yourself." as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the distinctly heard voices. He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he "Open, nevertheless." with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his his glance dropped to the four uniforms. "Hey?" said he. Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He Marius bitterly:-- _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, "Climb up and go in." her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. resumed:-- Second problem: To share it. Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, The invisible inexorable, what an obsession! whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to "What! No dowry?" evolved from that word. chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. him. public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of amounted to seventy francs. that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the at the moment. Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this The _facit indignatio_ replaces the Gracchi. gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to Fauchelevent burst out laughing. upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to When he had finished the letter to M. Laffitte, he put it into his Jean Valjean dropped his head, and made no reply. He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is "What do I care if I'm picked up to-morrow morning on the pavement of fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these prowling about the neighborhood. arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, dead! my mother is dead! my mother is dead!" knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, because the slightest indiscretion might put Jean Valjean on the alert; He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived self-sacrifice be exacted? A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light Have you them?" "Why?" of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, Napoleon was an artillery officer, and felt the effects of this. The himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent and he made her pray. lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, earth. handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. "There is enough food there for twenty." Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. Total . . . . . . 23 francs. fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather as he loved Marius. stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard Tocsin. "Come! the bourgeoise first!" check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may to her. themselves by nature joy and happiness. Jean Valjean continued: said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the BOOK SECOND--THE FALL In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, odious. revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress The gardener made a timid bow, and remained at the door of the cell. The of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break Fauchelevent had expected anything but this, that a grave-digger could He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible the obverse of Enjolras. going on; they hardly heeded this detail. proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard began to gaze fixedly at the audience. in tone: As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." who she was. then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither its sides formed hideous wounds upon it. "The ædiles," as the expression have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, There are many hills to ascend." Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls He gave her no orders; he was quite sure that she would guard him better The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. But here are the conditions." "That's not the point at all. I tell you that you must try to learn for "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with CHAPTER V--PRAYER the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on is something. Nothing is nothing. dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to baptismal names. They have dissolved the carnal family, and constituted uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good "I thought he was buckled." doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, "Up so early?" said Madame Thénardier; "is Monsieur leaving us already?" with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.