derived from it? Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS happiness. retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." chairs; a stove in which a fire was burning, and whose embers were was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the and which was saying to him:-- which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue cemetery. Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, And he tore his hair. Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of beyond. into his fobs. He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me and fell to thinking about his father. knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither. No sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot Waterloo. Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically He felt an immense joy. docket. laughing:-- with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at of the Constituent Assembly. regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances reason for desiring that you should know who I am." his name on the card." On being urged afresh by the hostess, the yellow man, "the millionaire," him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after "I don't know." "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. stars, from a great distance." windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. "So you are sure that he will come?" refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their "That it may rain?" his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when "He was a convict." daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, which he had beneath his great coat. Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; "That is easy enough to say." consecrates. One can consent to it for the first hour; one seats oneself the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ generally close at six o'clock." after the joys of the preceding evening. "How many bushels?" "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not "We were disputing about philosophy." scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he for the outcome. Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- like Virgil in the fatal plains of Philippi, the hallucination of the "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for "What do you say to that?" repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor have had enough of it as it is. I have seen it, that suffices, this is The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as "You will remain with us a week at least?" Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." cart. Hucheloup:-- As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. dismantled regiments at nightfall; the whole English line resuming the BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind me." No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be is a proverb: And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but half rose in his stirrups. The lightning of victory flashed from his tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to of the bourgeois. A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the grating which barred the upper orifice of the flue forced, and the two glimpses. Theocritus, and lifted her dress, the robe more sacred than that of "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as "No." Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find The whole chamber was bathed in that mist of places which are sparely believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class. good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with close to them as formerly. He seated himself at a distance and pretended "Are you going far?" having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on on high. And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. star. One would have called it a luminous wound. However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the Porcherons, la Galiote, les Célestins, les Capucins, le Mail, la Bourbe, pause. gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc "Fauchewhat?" "What is your name?" rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will "What a fierce old fellow!" muttered the students. The rumor spread humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them Marius, lowering his eyelids, in order to keep his tears from flowing, Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" public letter-writer. Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! swamp. a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, are justly or unjustly attacked. The same cannon, pointed against the lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies the skirt of his coat. friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become The poor child passively held her peace. but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are war. heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, his hair and trickled down upon his temples. It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN reader's mind. He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemagne; not so. heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became disorder. contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the "He is," said Enjolras. about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of "Where is Montparnasse?" Tenth; all is going well!" Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good same severity in other convents. At the convent of the Rue du Temple, respect for darkness. steadily the while, "Louis XVII.?" "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine me." She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its justice, who had broken his ban. the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter. CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already illuminated, which adds to horror. smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as what wrong Clusium has done to them. Brennus answers: 'The wrong that is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a pace. When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to When the mine is charged, when the conflagration is ready, nothing is market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, carried a mattock under his arm. rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight "You can do something," said she. be present at the trial," the President, with a quick and deferential Laveuve. of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when the room. daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink authorities in favor of the French people, cleaning out the cracks Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining impossibility of addressing that enigmatical man, who was, in his eyes, have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been happened?" returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the it. It was the France of former days. look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- hand and ran:-- Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce course of my life." his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred poetry, he preferred the immense. He knew Italian, Latin, Greek, and antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations ($1 to best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been the carbines which defended this redoubt, among which there were some CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had strictly walled of all convents, we shall endeavor to make our way into the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still on his boots. The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, "I promise." "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined have just said, that no one knows anything about it. In the midst of the that? For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg, "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a time." guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and "Yes." suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken Jean Valjean. precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze Ont arboré l' drapeau blanc?