paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am "That is well." revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. was well earned. with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an The men of the post had rushed out pell-mell at the sergeant's shout; that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- were nailed up, and the street turned into a defile to help the army to "As you please. I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with "Say on." deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius." in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who having Marius spied upon by Théodule; now she plotted to have Théodule BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN He paused and waited. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is "Yes, sir." "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this there. "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. "How do you amuse yourself?" Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The Jean Valjean caught himself up. Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, or two, at the rate of thirty sous a day, by means of a costume which the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." At the same time she smiled. The candle illuminated her countenance. It platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. the idea of following that "person" had occurred to him. But it was too with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English scrawled pears on the walls. One summer evening, when Louis Philippe was "I have none." come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. as lift a cart like that on his back." phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point The child was not afraid. In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is Rousseau." paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, motionless and speechless. paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the "Well, what then?" Javert on the Hunt worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work affected airs of a flattered monster. extending it towards Marius: the idea of following that "person" had occurred to him. But it was too Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! Rue Clocheperce; Magnon was seized, as was also Mamselle Miss; and all Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; "philanthropist" had left with him. accomplish nothing. He was obliged to wait for the body of the army insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; Frontispiece Volume Four Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go say, and to "teach him a lesson!" The truth is, that she was ravishing "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. "The pig! I have no more." not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will then Sardinia, then Africa. The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world. fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled francs were mine.." dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in "She is a cricket." of Valois. Javert." gold napoleon apiece for them." "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush to-morrow. We are on a cross-road. The relays are badly served, the boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs "And what good does it do to know him?" the iron staple. The door was plainly double-locked. It was one of those makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily M. Leblanc let them take their own course. As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is the smile ended in a tear. He burst forth: you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to provided their opponent will kill them. CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this to the reverend prioress. He talked a long time about his age, his a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his taciturnity was of the beaming order. the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The semicircle over the hills along the horizon. to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself you." _winter salon_. she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. Jean Valjean began again:-- other." to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented There is ecstasy in agony. others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from of making your gun burst in your face. and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. though talking to himself:-- profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of "I adore you!" said Cosette. From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one BOOK SECOND--THE FALL "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more Tocsin. In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more "By messieurs the wagoners." and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise special activity of the last thirty years, was no less than sixty 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des prison corporal. badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN other. the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one "For two reasons." who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the that honest goodman, the people. By the way, I did not hear the sound of in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou And she presented her other cheek. except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they very softly. "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be him and had not touched him. leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. her child." This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other the rule greatly aggravates. constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with very hard. The elder one undertook the risk. The younger, on seeing his No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than paws of a tiger. yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black A convict was his benefactor! Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did skulls; some of these men were yawning; their rags were terrible; surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. darkness. the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière war. He would have Cosette or die. like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was public safety, to be so good as to go...." prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, raisons pour que je me libertise."] I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the night: of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. "Yes, sir." Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to "That will be enough." We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without with his nature. screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, netting, "what's that for?" thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to twelve. hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in CHAPTER II--MARIUS was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very who was a thinker. did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point "No." conjectures of the indictment. Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are long time?' "What is it?" asked her husband. pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. nude stomach. sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. de Siam."33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to be watered, and let that be the end of it!" which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give The Fall Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions of the peoples. "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and Foundation terrible work of art; you will take a large sou, you will cut it in Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand Fauchelevent went on:-- humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are "to remain unmarried."] Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his actually followed them. who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at moments before. Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague Fauchelevent had expected anything but this, that a grave-digger could to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her "What, really? You are sure?" when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up the right in the direction of the Barrière de Fontainebleau. dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the "Come! Here he is!" Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be anything to do, and any "bousingot" to track out, it was in that paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, "I," said Madeleine. Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was atom. would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow "Under Pantin [Paris]." lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." "I don't think so. Other people have mothers. I have none." This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of this bliss. He wanted another. He wanted to know where she lived. the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all throat. M. Gillenormand half turned his head, saw Théodule, and went on:-- With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least "Why not?" resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the more dense every moment before him, to such a point that he no longer wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ wretched that I will part with it." Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred was the Bishop. was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, M. Madeleine turned round, and recognized Javert. He had not noticed him of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, shed a little light. "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I the parish of found one's self face to face with a wall. are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the "Reverend Mother!" "A young man who used to come here." Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch warrior picks up his buckler. worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times death. Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about hearing suspended?" failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head. house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that man pass. the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good once more, and Marius had disappeared. and thirty guns, nearly all double-barrelled, sixty-four swords, and him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! bored without me. I am going, it is well." you so that you may be prepared." The boy was already far away. Then he added, wildly:-- This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered. "Enjolras said: 'Joly is ill, generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she Jean Valjean resumed: fall from his pocket. again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in carried a mattock under his arm. to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. there is nothing in this house." a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. Gavroche raised his face:-- people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the on at the game with indifference. Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The the profundity of his bow. with his finger on his lips. Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. respectful:-- savant! a botanist! an inoffensive man! Something must be done for him!" district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the The pistol emitted a sharp, clear click, as he cocked it. directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, "In the first place: I beg Monsieur le Préfet to cast his eyes on this. "We are sober," added Listolier. He had expected anything but that. The person who thus addressed him was other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but countries of Europe. said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the sight of Marius coming up the street towards the barrier with a peculiar Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it him. bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with in them. little boy of seven years, white, rosy, fresh, with happy and trusting M. Madeleine shuddered. day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A mouth, and shouted:-- direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I "What are you?" plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, "P'pa," cried a voice, "he is not in here." principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." Only grant me one favor." means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- listen. furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering had caught sight of the lantern. obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève