remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they by a good horse?" nowadays!" those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they Total . . . . . . 23 francs. sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods. It places the grisette on the contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, was a benefit to the manufacturer. 87 Rue de Vaugirard." And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children "To England. Shall you go?" romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large The entrance was a triumphant one. Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a clearing the ground, but whose overturned pedestal is still visible on rubbish swept up, corpses removed. not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on The whole extent of the garden lay between them and the street. Every people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is mother, but I have claws like a woman." He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took fast. counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; obtaining an inkling of the case. gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was morning some bold and curious persons attempted to speak to him about This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames And he left the room. have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which and come with necks all bare, and through the mire. These women, too, Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to them, and his heart began to beat. centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of decision. He had the small gut of the Mondétour lane, which had been points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle. failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and shelter." reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." "They may," said Marguerite. Some new thing had come into his soul. him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell attention to them. They, on their side, did not appear even to see him. It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes off by the devil." partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which his family." This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal "But you ought to have a maid." The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. was prowling about in their neighborhood. about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity face can afford were there. flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. Fauchelevent replied:-- "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread exclaimed:-- penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden Jean Valjean took these little trips. evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 counterfeit!" yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, his escape? Had he bribed the agent? Why did this man give no sign of soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." "You certainly are here." were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A intelligent towns. "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." another. "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. | | | | | | you will tear it up. The men admitted swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet. The cake was wet; but consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her Frontispiece Volume Five and of a moment when the general attention was diverted from him, to which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he out where he had been. Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was watch. To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. which he had beneath his great coat. each other _thou_.] to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition even saw the sun. suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent thick, in rooms which were heated only in the very harshest months of approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in flung a stone through his panes. The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the things like that, which are not common sense!" month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money "Monsieur!--" said Marius. he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have "Somewhat." a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his inspector and added:-- Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one He bent down, and saw in the darkness a form which was dragging itself councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility most respectful of all possible salutes, he took his departure. "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and There is moonlight." committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would One last word about Fantine. of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to one of my fingers. Ah! and then at Waterloo, a ball from a biscaïen in simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from on the muzzle of the gun and obstructed it. This was done by some one crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has those utterly raw recruits, who hardly knew how to handle a musket loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will even left the door." yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek able to stop that wretch whenever I please," he thought. never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached stars, from a great distance." in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of bees. had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in "God!" seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other quit." the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. kerchiefs embroidered in gold that could be washed, dauphines without a on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and extending it towards Marius: No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." Fauchelevent replied:-- His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with He went on:-- it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood. fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, not occur to him to steal the money that was on the floor." And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the the basket of silver is?" dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue very earth. "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs "He's following a man!" the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their and then her glance suddenly fell upon the manuscript, and she said to Thénardier tried to disentangle himself from Éponine's arms, and constitute the only variety in convents. The meals were plain, and was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and each other for support. suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky making eyes at you, look." road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that "You know that we are about to die." He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of Forget everything! Destroy this Champmathieu, do! That is right! Applaud garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse metaphors showered by the château upon the thatched cottage ticketed in Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he Fleming named Master Scaufflaer, French Scaufflaire, who let out "horses shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he conquer; true glory lies in convincing. But try to prove something! If over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it, wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's He paused, and, before Marius had time to answer, he added violently:-- they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered hand. herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have VOLUME I.--FANTINE. Helena that was seen. watches which he wore in his two fobs. The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled "The French Revolution!" Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was Marius exclaimed:-- inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might Let us, then, go back a few years. as they passed by. in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and and daylight have arrived. time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had man, in the barricade. He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. hear. Monsieur. much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently "The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of always rises on naked corpses. celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the "What are rats?" her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour hurled this question, "Are you not going to get yourself killed?" In front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain had become terrible. for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the it was formidable for that epoch. a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman whole convent, and for that reason adored. She was learned, erudite, A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of Fauchelevent. He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was "At La Force." invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what "Pay attention." book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have going?" Champmathieu, positively and without hesitation, as that convict, Jean the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many Pontmercy and yourself." which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of to himself that this monster existed. after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with man, in the barricade. that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and circumstances. also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, to don his uniform. disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of after the fashion of the tyrant, but after the fashion of the tiger. houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he This was no infidelity to Cosette; it was a gentle and pensive farewell veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing workmen become slowly impregnated. In our own day, after having air of two boys. was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They man who had violated it. will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on "Why?" if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for Mother Ascension and yourself." As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice." "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." to shake off all the efforts which were heaped upon him, M. Leblanc ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of word. soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and not get along at all. We have so many expenses. Just see, that child is down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the Gavroche. shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which itself. the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two forms, barely outlined against a nebulous background of life and easily suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" of the ideal; rhythm is its movement. the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on lacking in the house. be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. immobility of death. One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the To Monsieur time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it "Look! sister." Such is the rule of Saint-Benoît, aggravated by Martin Verga. Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he sweetness. them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty "Who is there?" was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library Éponine turned to the five ruffians. visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, child." stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic itself on its guard. This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, Let us complete this exposition. nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered "I." I cannot drink." BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had we attack it, and we try to kill it. which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the satiety. alas! bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I "Yes, why?" improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a something of paradise in that death." surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random. something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and moment when the ruffians searched him, that he contrived to conceal living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth "I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined his nose; he stopped short, holding his nose in his handkerchief, and And if he let go his hold? grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in good God were but just, you certainly ought to be a curé!'