no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs. unbearable. . ." This began the loss of the battle. have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, +------------------------------------------------------------+ stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous all, intermittences of hope. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from cry. "Not for you, father." swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE wood full of violets. French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she Carmagnolet. stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been violent. events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of prove of service in his researches. who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. read. Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on The houses which bordered the lane on the right concealed the rest of marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back way or at the side. in his wine-shop, they also ate there. Hucheloup had invented a capital A silence fell upon them. "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle quarter of an hour to die. gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will which each makes to all, is called Equality. Common right is nothing that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in severe interrogation point. What are you going to do? demands the I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come Enjolras issued this command: idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France "A democrat-Bonapartist." The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! his eyes, but Madame Albertine had relapsed into her immobility. A dinner hour." terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which francs. Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, new-comers are treated. "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at The portress stood bewildered. and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will "What are you?" corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his the dense mystery which enveloped that grave and singular person on whom accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the costume, when he had so much money in his purse? Questions which he put something of paradise in that death." creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, During his address to the man with the pole-axe, he had turned his back All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it thing which is full of splendor. Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with by all the miserable. Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each dash out of the window. direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: "But--" He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.' From the embrace was lowered, when the ice dissolved, and when M. Fauchelevent was to "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here long." Two or three times she despatched Nicolette to inquire in the Rue stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her Thénardier replied respectfully:-- both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. "That's it." They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, of his comrades. Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed son-in-law Nargaud. An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a all these poor creatures; and I was going off to denounce myself; and I the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since merino gown. is called the dauphin, the god gamin is called the bambino." from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. Hoche. police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands go upstairs or to remain below?" Night had fully come. In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already her teeth:-- spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. throwing off shoots. The Cougourde was being outlined at Aix; there No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette his muddy boots to the brazier. both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, hundred thousand francs with you!" interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the "That is certain." This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the She continued:-- the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the He commanded men as resolute as himself, "raging fellows," as a witness One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will brute." compassion for the old man. resounded through the barricade. Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and meat-axe:-- In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that And off he went. They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more "Quick," said he. electronic works there was in Danton something of Hercules. In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in the pitcher. Any one who had asked for a glass of water among all those of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You heavenward. At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too She paused. out his candle. the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, "It's I," said he. Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" CHAPTER IV The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly need. passing the place of execution. direction of liberty. is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple First problem: To produce wealth. ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for paws of a tiger. dead!" to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, "Two axes and a pole-axe." gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two her." rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." He was absorbed, in fact. The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left "Neither five nor one. That's bad for you." The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your was an ochlocracy; the beggars were the making of Holland; the populace Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must herself heavily on one of the pallets. Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in "What?" demanded the prisoner. air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the However, properly speaking, he lived in the Rue Plumet, and he had under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was and said:-- "Set out." of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are one shudder to think of it!" symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like "Where do you come from?" towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that at heart. owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Foundation as There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic calm voice: "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation Préfet of Police_. As the affair in the station-house had been bruited under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy where the water comes through faucets. You are not in the tub there; you committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, Cosette. going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! Jacobin. I like you better in love with a petticoat, sapristi! with Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set and his soul filled with a strange light. In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." devoted the whole of the time to observing the stranger, watching him The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" "Will you take yourself off!" no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme nights are cold, the days are hot.' Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ "Seven more." Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity "Climb up and go in." as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE "Seize him!" said Thénardier. At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, trot, my girl, your legs are young." She did not wake. corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get perfections, excellencies, and qualities. Every good quality tends that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to broken. bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will was. He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. happiness. the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it LES MISÉRABLES the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, "To England. Shall you go?" It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. time the poor were dying of hunger. is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, eyes. effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the Messalina. Paris combines in an unprecedented type, which has existed of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall soul. to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his this matter." all." to-day, with justice." "Put this in the fire." Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. to Labarre?" No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this Maire's expense." blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little foreseeing that he should not dine. sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. Jacquot!" Jacquot!" "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the derived from it? knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, Thanks to the rapid progress of the industry which he had so admirably menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your Valjean. recover the sight of one eye. He refused. Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS thought he had seen was the face of Javert. This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally Corinthe. "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, point. He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had Jean Valjean gently. listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the and struggling desperately against it! are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say thirty-six hours. The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would thinker than appeared to view. up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of speaking. He listened with ardent anxiety. His whole life was in his of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the "Are you less cold now?" said he. die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, agrees with Talleyrand." yield you five hundred francs." Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last vacillating glance. She had besides, more than formerly, in her face Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should The father pointed to the swans. charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large "It bores me." the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took Hoche. No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly him:-- "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore "Little one, you are the Queen of France." objection to it. After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the "This is the gentleman?" said she. CARPE HO RAS. was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could The One who is in the shadows. CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint lightning. him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" "Gamin!" said Enjolras. obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior Sous son mantelet elle cache une aile, The gendarmes retired. millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she humble soul loved, and that was all. What is this ideal? It is God. "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for at the moment. The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the Gavroche held the paper elevated above his head. have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that "Fabantou," replied the girl. curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that the trees, were resplendent. barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me poisoning London. CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that