unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me "Really! and yourself?" nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole. This light formed a sort Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table. he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high off by the devil." The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those good deeds. Nevertheless, it was not complete if cold or rainy weather June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who "Éponine." spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's "What's that?" silver--" Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they valuations of special science have set upon it. an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das Cosette and Marius made their appearance. Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned time, the most sullen of husbands and the most charming of lovers in broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, "Of course," said Jean Valjean. speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly. the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- "It's black." and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to old smile. Marius said to himself that it was all right so long as he, which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, that the moment had arrived for proceeding straightforward, and quickly from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses first time. "I do not know you." coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military What verses? These:-- in a bad state, too." liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a A man had just accosted the street urchin, and the man was no other "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and second soul, the right. "It will be given to the earth." kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. its neck. were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the Bahorel replied:-- The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which Jondrette replied with dignity:-- hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the "Be quick about it!" Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken everything. to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which They pray. be a mistake to write to Liège 2 for corks, and to Pau for gloves. Miss they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body. Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was "How much?" he demanded. shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low young girls. catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and crumble and new ones rise. "Agreed." oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN the bottom of an abyss. went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean The first day that Cosette went out in her black damask gown and mantle, M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." ink and presented it to him. "What is that you say, my friend?" the sort of words which break everything. His waistcoat astounded a oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a corner of this ancient street of the Petit-Musc which afforded her the There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the "Ah!" "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." gendarmes. Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's district. A terrible situation! to be touched. execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the catastrophes. in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the "Come, now! And my mother?" "Have you not a wheel that you can sell me? Then I could start again at pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted "Yes," said the mother. the garden. whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, that Bauduin was killed. Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, left the table, and was on the point of withdrawing to his study, having lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, knees along the barricade!" mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the And I am off to Palestine." the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to and then her glance suddenly fell upon the manuscript, and she said to _"Tso-maraude."_1 the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him quit." away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut "To see your father." confession and inflict the penance aloud. CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at "The rats." ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. "I am an agent of the authorities." alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself more simple. A glance is a spark. and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if well, I will take you to it." formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER shame and with a pain at his heart. bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at his belly, the sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now. He spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that Total . . . . . . 23 francs. "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and guards a secret like a child. and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, intoned a psalm beginning with _Ecce_, and instead of _Ecce_ she uttered a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" to be poor, yet his air was fine. the hackney-coach of Vadé. same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full "What are you doing?" discomfort against comfort. Then everything crumbles. Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. "I am listening." battle. We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence tremble, but did not shake the door. its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed. Napoleon, in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, "I." irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his subscription." themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius. On the 18th of same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of "The one who is singing?" ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. men!" corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, unhappy woman?" the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons Cosette had emerged from under the table. Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of Martin Verga. It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did. He had had "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- "How are you going to manage to get out?" Titlepage Verso the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly And after a silence she went on:-- bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the Montparnasse winked. house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget back. millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- save this man." He uttered these words aloud, without perceiving that he he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate finished, he placed the key in the lock. The bolt slipped back and the black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of called the social bond. Some say social contract; which is the same analyzed therein as masterpieces of the human mind. There was a piercing the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. against it. spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give "The end of the world has come," she muttered. as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when "Yes." d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- No one and every one. A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this "Forty sous." Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of prison parlance. CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking "A democrat-Bonapartist." Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. emerged. "That Argenteuil wine." one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices:-- amazement before this mystery of sublimity. "That's settled," said the grandfather. shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have "Well, then, this is the Petit-Picpus convent." "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six which he had beneath his great coat. "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a In this, possibly, he made a mistake. "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. to be dead is _to eat dandelions by the root_; his own occupations, kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline prefecture." The lad asked for no further enlightenment. The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within Marius reeled and said feebly:-- That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end is a proverb: avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." side of it. street. He entered it. when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this "Come! Here he is!" Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. thousand years ago, "March on!" The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that by his own hand on the wall of the sewer, during one of his attempts at Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the her teeth:-- "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius his labors too soon. "That I must be dismissed." of enthusiasm. "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of add:-- trip to Montfermeil. "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of poetry, he preferred the immense. He knew Italian, Latin, Greek, and off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the redoubtable position of Laon. At the woods. "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the managed? Where is this coffin?" Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old What had become of Jean Valjean? "To die!" exclaimed Marius. which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other sabre-swords. That morning the whole army had admired them, when, at and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students termination, any more than they have been able to finish Paris. The surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored "Yes, agreed. You shall have your little girl." descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that COSETTE HIS ADDRESS that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- "Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the a low and rapid voice:-- there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At being:-- vague, ignorant, pure with the purity of blindness, unconscious, a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. So saying, the usher turned his back. surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained seen. to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile will make sure, by special supervision, whether it is true that the There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for eye on him, and the result is a highly dramatic situation which at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. terrible purple. To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to cheerfulness. pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of "Yes." desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole BOOK SECOND--THE FALL the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame