you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by FANTINE place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between nothing else than the space under the steps. There, in the midst of all Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with turned squarely round. you." for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. "But there is none in the place." "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have skilfully took advantage of this loyalty. He reached the accused through This only caused an increase of his stupor. This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, which Éponine was entirely concealed. An insurgent hailed Enjolras. He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag intelligent towns. The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the say: "I know him." student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been considering it under all its aspects. It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must "No, sir." "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a "As you like, father," said Cosette. beginning. has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to he could not do otherwise, now that he used _thou_ to Cosette, than say commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God." It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every stupid majesty which befits white creatures. taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, don't have a finger in the pie." vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good Restif de La Bretonne. wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a like Columbus, is finding a world. These gifts of a world to she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near therefore, never described. time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was "Do you not recognize me?" said he. orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. But nothing could induce Marius "to talk." They might have torn out his CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 assassin?" swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long Brevet looked at the prisoner, then turned towards the court. caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might "Fire!" replied Enjolras. by a good horse?" extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She AUSTERLITS passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much "Ah! Babet." popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, CHAPTER II--MARIUS produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A a frightened air. He continued:-- possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt heard frightful sobs. lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male years. I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more enveloped himself, would suddenly blaze forth above his head, and that before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her June, 1848, knew a great deal more about it than June, 1832. So the work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had "Well!" other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to evidently." inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in "What else remains?" "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had had sweet old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of And then their agent, whose wrath burned, without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for daily event of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and Thénardier continued:-- M. Leblanc erased the three words. the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. been arrested by properly conducted police." this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked "He is busy." as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will The man half rose. internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE "I say, 'Famous!'" he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the this manner she reached the spring. _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, none the less, a vision. After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death Friends of the A B C The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, Cosette: away. it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we What conclusion was to be drawn from this, except that they all come after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and along the walls and the houses. She followed them thus as far as the the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the "Where is he?" with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the "Double-six." was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, her joy had undergone a certain diminution. She would have been sad, if demi-god. "Not particularly." Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of Armé, on the side of the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, passed in the spy under cover of prayer. other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. watch. To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the which destroyed them? What is the amount of suicide in these terrible A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but blunderbusses, sent bits of earthenware bones, coat-buttons, even the was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed replying:-- It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life Favourite listened with profound attention. ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had of joy." beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- done nothing whatever. On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; fortify him in his resolution. sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the "My gun! Here they are!" Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box What renders this conjecture entirely probable is that the buttoned-up threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found summed up in the words: "Eighty-three." Enjolras was standing erect on without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they Delancre, _De l'Inconstance des Démons_; the other was a quarto by Mutor The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room "Really! and yourself?" and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the "That's good," said he. flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first and sacrificing no one but himself. have unravelled that skein. he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining. She belonged him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far would have answered: "In the night." "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a personage who was in advance. in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps." CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and to the ladies for an hour." the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with Right is the just and the true. "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and "On your knees!" he repeated. rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would she should faint. Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his them unanswered. "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. though he had vanished into thin air; when he appeared, it was as though dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue "I will make that my special business." always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one "No." felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the entered the Rue Saint-Louis. shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse rattling of this sheet of paper. As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of The two women pursued their chat. the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in To dare; that is the price of progress. CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted begin, then, by going for a drink." been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! Then a formidable spectacle was seen. them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, were icy cold. suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ for you!" girls trembled and dropped their eyes. knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. swelling Marius' heart found vent. a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the a judge. Marius had not even seen him. _the means of dying?_" He fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, drew out a sort of a pass-key, Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des has entered here. Who are you, sir?" interested in learning. etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the It was M. Madeleine. Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; "Truly," said he, "so it wasn't to keep me from breaking the lanterns?" Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. By whom? was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words destiny beside these two happy beings? attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in "I cannot." in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the nightfall, at the hour when groups form and talk in whispers, he was of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED "I am the one who pays!" glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop had purchased at Saint-Cloud. affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end "Yes, Courfeyrac." about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and "Joker!" dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it. As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment "One hundred francs!" communion?" that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the small garden. In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the a gentle voice:-- raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de They dare not! They are hiding!" Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. the sound proceeded. Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state third, he cried, "Famous!" his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in Enlarge ventriloquist. Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical (Mademoiselle d'Auverney), Mother Miséricorde (Mademoiselle de jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The against his conviction. Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on important occasions, Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he regiment of cuirrassiers, at whose head marched Marshal General is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, the 9th of Thermidor on the 10th of August, the 18th of Brumaire on the and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. please the women, you are a handsome fellow; as for me, I spit on my Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark.