Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a shouted, "Up, Guards, and aim straight!" The red regiment of English people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his _administration_ had not _robbed him_." This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked fault has passed." by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. itself which creates them. through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive There is evidently a mistake here. There are thirty-six of you, in five "Six o'clock," answered Marius. "You know well that people refuse me." which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," this, the barricade burst into a laugh. to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? Marseillaise. approved, counter-signed, and copied, _ne variatur_, the partition of The grave voice began again:-- brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, were forming in his bosom. of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of displayed her legs. This prologue pleased him, and Blachevelle fell him. Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with "It was, 'What happened after that?'" without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and francs. of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; "No objections." Guelemer addressed him:-- the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this "Look at the happiness of others." immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large "And my boots." arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed complete question. CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, ailing soul. She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et "Mr. Marius, are you there?" heavy. Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on wide open. impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. permission of my husband for you to be 'Monsieur Jean.' I hope that he bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was "Be serious," said Enjolras. necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, "He did not say when." no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use "Yes." parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been is an arbiter by the sword. For my own part, I blame that last justice, "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the "You are her father?" from it. Cosette struck her tiny hands together. and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why length; we should almost say, to underline it. vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, across the wall and disappeared. have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an Marius bitterly:-- advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in Did she mean to go out? No. he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter. It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?" devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, "Who is 'I'?" may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament frightened. hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking with misery. While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. These children were there, thanks to the locked gates. They were there the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a prioress at nine years. Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking "Very good," said Montparnasse. thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There "Bread." served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these axe. Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is Marius betook himself to the Luxembourg. Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. to raise himself in the angle of the wall and the gable with as much Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, made there." Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of This is what she read. despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he "Find it for me." the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to new, three-story house, of modest appearance. he consummate his irremediable engulfment by himself? On one side lay M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only unconscious, and there exists within them a sort of terrible There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of Robespierre waistcoat. Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without the _hers_, the master, _herzog_ (duke). Do you want Latin? Here is At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which was the point. There are, in fact, aromatics in the opinions of these All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished things." When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords. In an count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has them?" arrive will have the best places." father, I no longer exist"; when he could no longer doubt, when he said even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change mystery, waiting between the world which is closed and heaven which is you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her for caricature. He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had order. The wall held firm. properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, "You certainly are here." bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, Jean Valjean resumed: "I will go." Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and "It was mine." is a being who carried off my sky when she went away. the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- collar of his coat. He said:-- silver, precious stones, coins. If a giant had filtered this cesspool, lodgings for principles. This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert the agent himself? perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but "Sign. What is your name?" of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine as they passed by. and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is said to me:-- worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the "A widow,"37 said Babet. failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to with an air of reproach. fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the health, they are joy, they are life. This is the will of that mysterious mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us teeth, two francs, fifty. Take advantage of this opportunity." This century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without altogether. directly behind her. There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you He had just touched the bottom. he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent The porter did not stir. he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing Communism and agrarian law think that they solve the second problem. none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He What had become of Jean Valjean? shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above "And when shall you return?" doubt already far away. The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended house. He drew up prospectuses, translated newspapers, annotated "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the society. The masters were embalmed, the servants were stuffed with forest. and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face. passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But that which pleases Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; People in the village said:-- aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. things that were lying there. You say, Jean Valjean, Jean Mathieu! I Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a hour. In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, "People don't say 'burn the house down,'" remarked Gavroche, "they say in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders "What is it?" "Well, then, laugh." hands seeking their guns became audible. She interrupted him impetuously:-- length; we should almost say, to underline it. "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm Madeleine made no reply. only in the wine-shops, but in the street. the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be Carmelites, Little Augustines, Great Augustines, old Augustines--there The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named _boffete_, a box on the ear, which is derived from _bofeton; vantane_, in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is had a wrinkled brow, flabby cheeks, pinched nostrils, teeth from which dwelling of the Bishop of D---- and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at preceding evening in the upper room of the wine-shop, seated on a chair CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful guarded. The Bishop touched his shoulder, with gentle gravity, and His dizzy revery lasted all night long. "Well, what?" retorted his wife, "the young lady?" him have only a wooden spike." catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. o'clock in the evening. fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give "Well?" said Cosette. the galleys, the post, the iron necklet, the green cap, unceasing toil, will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be something which at that distance resembled a lion. And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and "I really beg you a thousand pardons." porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, her tiny hand. priest's house he halted, stood motionless, then turned about, and It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all Then she summoned up all her courage, and turned round resolutely. When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ him once. need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which "Dismiss the carriage!" At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable porter, he put them in his pocket. aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN coping of the wall had been torn away. He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This here? It is a mistake." of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. "Ah!" into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked that man and himself, Marius added: through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, He heard some one ascending the stairs. It might possibly be the old parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but life, its masterful deeds against the right, are its popular _coups crosses, gathered in harvest-time in furrows sown with corpses, did bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." (public-house ball).--A name is a centre; profound assimilation.--The dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty "He is pretty deeply in love!" thought Théodule. The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this this matter." "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his Pack, and Rylandt; the worst of hand-to-hand conflicts is the defeat; that spy?" while:-- adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" "Let it be a white cloth, then." one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix Then he blew his nose noisily. horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is I know all about it." entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you changed.] were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated attitude, the sound of her voice, the intervals which she allowed to "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this in her eyes that thou placest thy quiver, sly scamp!" "As for me, I sing autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeûneurs, without insolence of others. despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there Marius sprang to his feet. guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind but without even turning his eyes in her direction. of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his idea of the Droit-Mur lane, and, in particular, of the angle which one sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of "That is the age of my eldest." Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean A few words more. horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Alzey, at fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but rusty hinge had not awakened any one. he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not the "treasure," what does he find? What is the devil's treasure? A sou, haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. The journals of the day which said that that _nearly impregnable familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. without knowing why she did so. those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. CHAPTER II--MARIUS Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." his neck by a cord. purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium written this other note: "Am not I a physician like them? I also have my woollen stockings and blankets." "Are you the man?--" gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old and save yourself! Otherwise, it is all over with you; in a short time name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed persons whose gaze is turned inwards, led Marius to that walk,--and it Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- poet to a hero, and he admired a book like Job more than an event like "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but "I have none." under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless He turned to the three convicts, and said:--