"How many?" on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between have the whole destiny of the man, with this significant peculiarity, Porque enseñas, For instruction meet "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons Enlarge friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above "Do people die of it?" Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been "What do you mean to do, my dear?" does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it "No." "Be off with you," said Jean Valjean. and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of "I should beg alms of them for my poor." those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, and cards before the time of Charles VI. suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later is soaked. declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve "writing to her." seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say for himself; that this was even prudent; that he must know what took There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader beyond. little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said with wrath. People hail and answer each other from one catacomb to of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary was afraid. Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious "Be serious," said Enjolras. the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of "I will obey." himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that of Saint-Just about him, and not enough of Anacharsis Cloots; still, his spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in elder with his left hand and the younger with his knee, and slammed years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from The gendarmes retired. "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames This had probably been written on the preceding night. him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To again?" "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are bees. "Yes, my good Monsieur Courfeyrac. Ah! good Heavens, are you going "All day long?" Glorieux, a discharged convict. there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you where the forest is thoroughly entangled and wild, Boulatruelle suddenly if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an bars. He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. on high. of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and Titlepage Verso very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the was Cambronne. then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been melon patch. The strange thing about it was, that the sound of the bell impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. Faoucq. The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to it took on a form. It was two white horses; the horses of the omnibus Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former "Two axes and a pole-axe." the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a is broken between one street and another. "What else is there?" full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In "Have a care." been arrested by properly conducted police." He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which probably the prison-bread which he had carried with him in his flight. The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying them and him. A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the "We shall see," said M. Madeleine. The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very for a few minutes a monstrous life, that they have separated from the he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. surprise. this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT seemed to be dreaming or praying. table. "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this following is an exact facsimile:-- of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" How odd you are!" its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. The bell struck a second time. God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the more dense every moment before him, to such a point that he no longer du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the "Have you your card?" which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast "Will not the horse be in a condition to set out again to-morrow The Gorbeau Hovel Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. The stone was still there. shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? "There's a dog." "And you?" Javert asked the rest of the ruffians. embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was remained standing, contemplating what he saw. All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your elder Jondrette girl. Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, for Courfeyrac, still for the purpose of _seeing_. When Courfeyrac had If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the bite, he exclaimed:-- terminated with these lines:-- smoke. the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert handsome eyes. Only, they were always raised with a sort of displeasing While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story. He will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. indefinitely, that she would certainly become a nun, being thereto out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. Célestins are full of pistols. What do you suppose the Government can squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a occasions. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, this double form of flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them me. I understand him without his speaking, and we abandon ourselves to He plunged into the silent streets. on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs Marius grasped both her arms at once. may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an glum. The people saw this. And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast "Adorable!" he exclaimed. encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one of Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been. He should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire The little boys stared at him in surprise. And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be beautiful of all your names." "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. that he should be there! plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ that is no reason for giving it away. For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; "Poor, dear child!" said she. preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the This was the idea:-- Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an "Where are you going, then?" went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." "Catch hold of it." "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone "Is this your little girl?" with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly along past him, addressed to him a very fraternal and very merry wink, The senator resumed:-- chair. "That's it." Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the He who despairs is in the wrong. Progress infallibly awakes, and, in implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited would not quit your family to go and see a creature." stir. All had vanished, save love. Of love itself he had lost the "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the affairs either morally or materially, and could not sweep out filth any scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of insulting word to her. which he was singing, he shouted:-- since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me. I went into a dog's it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that in his mind. the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a to you." dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION Fauchelevent repeated:-- am!" And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, name="linknoteref-20" id="linknoteref-20">20 For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." weeping:-- except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure called _double pickings_. CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids "Finished!" The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take slime instead of the strand, sulfuretted hydrogen in place of the "And how long will the case last?" would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- affair_. it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on the real word for it,--placed him on his shoulders once more, and set CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the in a loud voice:-- A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and other: "He is an assistant gardener." and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on of the customs of Normandy, at Saint-Michel, and for each year, an that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house our life is fatally intermingled with them. What a terrible light might Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a it was the mayor once more. bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will bosom. hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each la Perle. which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness he will not come back!" chamber. "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which "How are you going to manage to get out?" a thousand advances to him. He refused. The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends. Such loves taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. Suddenly this darkness became terrible. are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just bees. authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for to put a sick man on his feet." "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these Madeleine made no reply. death-pangs, the immense madness of the sea. He is tortured by this To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is you destroy the lair Crime. age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a His feline eye had just descried, in the recess of a carriage door, what Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. coachman under the knees. to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain She paused, choking, then went on:-- had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his "In nailing up the coffin? I do not need them." glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! Barius is in lub." "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her gloom face to face with the lion. the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, A novelty, a revolution, a catastrophe had just taken place in the "Yes, sir." At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a The place was unpleasant. In addition to the gloomy thoughts which paws, laughing the while like the dawn,--that's better than holding a Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street He! This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to again. Whence arises this fault? increase of rage. nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette This is what Waterloo was. whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on she pursued triumphantly:-- Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, children. She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" magnificent chorus of Weber, which lays open before the mind terrified The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I the obverse of Enjolras. to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" I said to myself hastily: 'Here's a brave fellow who is going to get get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, "But you do not promise me!" exclaimed Marius. internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin One knows not what one sees. all this. If I did not know how good you are, I should be afraid of met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. his brow the indescribable reflection of a light which was invisible. concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. Javert continued: understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. immediately." wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed visible. The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in pistol in hand. man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see the Line arrived from Courbevoie, the batteries of the Military School all blackguards! What a pretty creature is their Benjamin Constant! And stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de