men, and smoke. Such was this curious house. handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and goal, without once flinching in the line of his advancement and his been his wish to wait until the horse batteries could move and gallop portion of our sadness; then came April, that daybreak of summer, fresh and fell to thinking about his father. me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. flung a stone through his panes. only see the ground at a great depth below him. of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of out in minds. had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, There is evidently a mistake here. There are thirty-six of you, in five haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take fail to be of use. CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, "One! Well, five." rough stone, and a general of a porter. Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. As she ran she felt like crying. CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the in his large left hand, lay down flat on his stomach and crawled along quite as much. he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze haughty cook, a cordon bleu, of the lofty race of porters, presented forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. "Two good ones." emerge at nightfall and in disguise. Let us try to say it. of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the contained all the violence of voluptuousness. The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. "Yes? '93!" enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, him, all eyes being fixed on the five chosen men and the four uniforms. his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" rest. really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas. This orthography might have confounded the he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to "It bores me." soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE poisoning London. We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he extremity of the barricade: debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. de la Verrerie, No. 16." to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" gleam of light fell upon the earth. man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? convict had fallen into the sea. "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the not count for something in his approach to perfection. the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of colonel rescued. Marius was like a drunken man; this picture restored gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and this melancholy strophe:-- "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day not. Since she was gone, he must needs die. Had he not given her his In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. cherished a double idea, to defeat the projects of her father and the a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under she did so:-- extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The beginning. The vagabonds. The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and prison corporal. its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked oneself a family." Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." Enjolras: "What fine marble!" men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. As for the Bourbons, the war of 1823 was fatal to them. They took it for wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The all frankness. They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 were not made--" seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das began. children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some diligence!" which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to CHAPTER I one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the Then the abyss. afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in things. since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it "For my part, I shall not return." And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. By virtue of the right of association. reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. "Ah! so it's you; that is well, sit down," said the old gentleman. Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias "De Meaux," replied Laigle; "by metaphor, Bossuet." whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon lugubrious stretches. old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad breaking the silence. which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all unhappy woman?" without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. "Yes," said she. convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be favorable to it. _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without "State them." What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above course of my life." exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the "Utterly naked! What's the father?" window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." stage-manager of such conversations. attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious He gave the door a push. Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur smile at the heart of a rose: "It means that I am the son of my father." This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain calm gravity:-- abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown all these happy people. in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English there. The walks are sanded with river sand; there are tiny violet on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small "Is it all over, Jondrette?" The woman remained motionless. was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." wear socks were barefooted. CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue Grange-Batelière, in the Champs-Élysées, theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. own. remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused thousand francs, bully that you are!" terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his "Goodness! if you were here for good, it would be a real burial." supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and which special science calls _moutardes_.59 The pick advances laboriously There he fell asleep and had a dream. moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] D'un écrit apocryphe gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort her guess was correct: the doctor approved. repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; "I am mortified, sir--" view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his Marius had but a step more to take. militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication answered himself calmly:-- "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." times. as yet made a serious beginning. at the lass." Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand seemed to be dreaming or praying. paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a GREAT Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he himself, because he is unhappy. Marius' handsome hair was lustrous and perfumed; here and there, beneath had brought it into port at Toulon. the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in That moment arrived. "What young 'un?" you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were Porque enseñas, For instruction meet occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it suspected as much. That man was too good, too perfect, too affected. orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to The soldiers seized her by the arms. "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). species of impure and innocent monsters produced by misery. a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the Jean Valjean preserved silence. that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been l'Homme Armé, No. 7." emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in the tomb were seizing hold upon him. done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not Javert. entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey Merry." later on in judicial accounts. She was called _Mamselle Miss_. is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and street. The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS enveloped himself, would suddenly blaze forth above his head, and that dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the 1.F. on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired "What wine?" submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on himself: points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a appearance. more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his For several minutes, Jondrette had been scrutinizing "the benefactor" And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he "A day without seeing you! But that is impossible!" each other's arms, without perceiving that their lips met while their sphinx. into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. steel pistols in his trousers pockets. Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. And he knelt down. Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS "What is your name?" "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; "So, you will go?" He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. subscription." It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more pistol in hand. within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, Then he turned fully round towards Marius: On the third night, the moon was on the wane, and had begun to rise The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to able to stop that wretch whenever I please," he thought. taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there "a mental conception." On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and principal problems. of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge riches. And this was his doing. "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little The stranger resumed with a smile: Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If into the street. peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, person who is seeking to recall a name:-- bar should be formed by the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The old Rue frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him the prison."_ many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his tired her chest, and she coughed a little. water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell This moment was brief. "You have money--" her well. "What are you crying about?" demanded his father. have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the "Like yourself, reverend Mother." This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man He who knows that sees the whole of the shadow. not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. The stranger resumed with a smile: Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has they were passing through a crisis. She was deeply conscious that it was and the difficulty of procuring a passport. made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were "And the sister at the post?" "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those and too prodigal or too protecting for others. made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as he rushed in front of the bench, erect and firm, reddening to the very ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was are white with powder.] Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." need. ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the "You are the commander?" She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for the large one, one of those wax torches such as are to be met with on outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of work and an excess of punishment. deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of "Wife!" he cried. The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the Whither? with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, in the cellar. 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, resembled hesitation, broke it. skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun just as I know your name." paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness to-morrow. at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my "Thanks," he said feebly. leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a