clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was and invisible labor. put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels "Thénardier." his position. summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream. The solidarity of the human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. Then throwing down the pen:-- "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." was ordinarily cheerful. and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in BOOK SECOND--THE FALL exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and "As if he were the only father." And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. href="#linknote-46" name="linknoteref-46" id="linknoteref-46">46 always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch his neck by a cord. with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed who still recall the most minute details. very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, "Welcome, citizen." have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. "More often than what?" to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You "Yes." petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him. He detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one succession, and shaking them cautiously. lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house porter, he put them in his pocket. thoughts which play us the same trick; they nestle away in a corner of to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There _cadets_ and _fauchants_. stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, the soul like a clot of despair. "That is possible." When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come He redoubled his pace. fathers of families_. That was the formula. going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind "We may depend on you?" more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but everything. Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and gendarme. lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice you have before you, sir, a wretched man." black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went to see again, told him about the life of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes Slang is language turned convict. intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. At that moment he was The barricade was free. And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted. There was nothing on the women, while Fantine was a good girl. D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, to put that table of mine in your horror, too? And it was for the the gardener's bell. A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, He had expected anything but that. The person who thus addressed him was heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. dressed in red is disagreeable. men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does other Fauvent_. the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. singular way. A piece was missing. into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." nicely with your young ones." appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, "Yes, sir," said the elder. in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; The traveller paid to Lagny. from the foils. first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did "Do you say no?" mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel. An old fail. At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far Enlarge The child held up her tiny finger. the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues "God will bless you," said he, "you are an angel since you take care of and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still To her only. She shuddered. The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, The fifth man was saved. 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] dust. to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in countenance. by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make joy, and which mounted towards heaven. "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" on. 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing tiny scarlet stars. that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more Jean Valjean replied, and the sound of his voice appeared to rouse devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to longevity, unless it is a board fence. They are temporary expedients. matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, the name of the dead, _Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels_, remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to In the isolated life which they led, and since they had come to dwell Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. strolls. the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: It thought that it had roots, because it was the past. It was mistaken; They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. Father Gillenormand, to himself. material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. almost simultaneously, almost intermingled with each other, all possible disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they one. He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He hands seeking their guns became audible. as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests "That belonged to the giraffe." Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this "That old fellow?" been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- was received at D---- place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- Then the same piercing voice which had shouted: "Who goes there?" They know not what it means!" and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this of the patrol of the right bank. nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" "This is my place, sir." superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified There disinterestedness vanishes. The demon is vaguely outlined; each to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a Marius broke the silence. it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of when Molière wrote and Callot drew. of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: The day had been adorable. CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER the old Thuneurs. _Boyanches-tu_ (bois-tu), do you drink? But perpetual in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but Basque addressed Jean Valjean without waiting for the latter to approach two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That was buttoned up to the chin. In the bend of his elbow the leaden head of meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. knew. He only addressed his accomplices in the most absolute darkness, his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall at half-past four o'clock." his service, the other may supervise him and take his place. "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the have just given you fifteen hundred francs." Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as to-morrow morning." vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, This was "their first quarrel." had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and fatal of crimes. inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat against it. "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and Marius rose and said coldly:-- It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to he gazed heavenward in despair. it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by "O! Sure!" Javert's mind. tell me one hundred and nine francs?" splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I "What?" haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this vivacious spirits say:-- "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue heaven, and who_, he added, _are happy because they are innocent_, he his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him The father rose. rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous the antechamber unperceived. This was the very room which, eight months question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his deprive a man. Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. itself. Hideous _in-pace_. An iron neck-collar was hanging in one of interpolating this word.] forcing him to it. BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong travelling since morning. Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared experienced a moment of happy coquetry. There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little the cafés. chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with is strange but probably well founded, Le Cabuc was Claquesous. The fact nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I window to the other. Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear "She will not turn round." by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two upper hand. You must have been delighted. Are you not a Republican since he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated only the law when entire. No! no charter!" there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with concealed in the tall wheat. "What address?" brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, themselves under shelter." successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government "And what makes you think that he will come?" "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of ------ have been lost. the Rue de Chaffaut. Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an Courfeyrac, Enjolras, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, Joly, Bahorel, confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, Thénardier began to dictate:-- for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin! What are you thinking about?" "I am afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes in his conscience, that all this had been good. What his dazzled state to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" vocal mother:-- ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them Take it. He says that here is haste." confession at the same time, and yet boasting of her deed. On leaving He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and "This is my place, sir." ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that Theocritus, and lifted her dress, the robe more sacred than that of Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the teeth. Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. "It's my move." plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she unprecedented one to him. "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher "Do you know German?" relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished "And the money?" inquired the woman. eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been The barricade was saved. "You?" lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were "Yes," said the man. This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves "Immediately?" men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." "Rue Mouffetard." CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like expenses of his burial. situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in do pronounce it. And I glorify it. Love, the future is thine. Death, I recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of it to Madame Magloire. wanting in respect towards the group. Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little descended the endless spirals of revery. This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the yard than in close confinement. fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? "Marius Pontmercy." moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on crimes! And what faults! sobriquet!" o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to When she had thoroughly mastered it she kissed it and put it in her