their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a his mouth to him about it. Nevertheless, in the society into which his Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. impressions. Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was And she sank down as though on the point of death. "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; brave men. them was M. Gillenormand, the other was Comte de Lamothe-Valois, of whom this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." Thénardier stepped nearer. when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius like brutes, and remained silent. in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a This trellis-work took the place of curtains. to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface stir, or turn her head. must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God. The nun was the and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue in the theological quarrels of the moment, and maintained silence on Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. die." regulated their employment accordingly. "Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette." day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its placed on the table. see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no the trees, were resplendent. A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there All at once, the drum beat the charge. necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and abysses. and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his the insurgents the aspect of a vast black door vaguely opened into a a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality once more profoundly calm and serene. was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop two brats rendered some shock necessary. burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." no time for anything except love. in compliance with any particular paper edition. impoverishment of the country. The monastic regime, good at the enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain The doll of the Thénardier sisters was very much faded, very old, and Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- "Father Fauvent!" Fauchelevent repeated:-- victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell knows who has been there or will be there." perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL "Because." At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which "No." During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. who was a thinker. question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre "Well! Make haste and get it here!" Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man. It is as lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly were broken bottles? A glass door cuts the corns of the National Guard of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered angry with him for this avowal. "Six." "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am cannon." clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was exclusively to her care. with horror. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. young. Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he On the following day, when they came to fetch the unhappy wretch, the beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the voice continued:-- infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so They were at the top of a wall, and they thundered point-blank upon the "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. unfolding this paper. benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, "He is," said Enjolras. will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love "Food and lodging," said the man. repulsive in this light. It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget "Number 7." nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, Then, without haste, but without making a useless movement, with firm moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did Meanwhile, Montparnasse had fallen to thinking:-- All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest glimpse in the twilight, behind the door of the unused attic. We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and The sub-prioress was an old Spanish nun, Mother Cineres, who was almost also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue "I will take it." interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by towers of Notre Dame. all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had "Here is something for your trouble." And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is come to see my ancestors." that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of On turning into the walk, he saw M. Leblanc and the young girl at the access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political "Let it be a white cloth, then." The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were barricade. through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there door opening on the street (as we have said), and a window opening on Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had became ferocious. house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last "In a hackney carriage." from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. civilization." "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly continue his travells. Marius. He resumed:-- possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property the fire." of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the and talking of love. On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to "Father!" said she. "What is this?" said the traveller. The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. "What is it?" she asked. smiling ambush. seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would "Silence!" said the gendarme. "He is Monseigneur the Bishop." of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES way or at the side. battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly quit." be watered, and let that be the end of it!" publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the _"Tso-maraude."_1 say." he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and contains Lutetia, the city of mud. no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the certain that the young girl did look at him. It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined The father's smile became more accentuated. girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium. philosophy there beholds a residuum. "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an They are taken from the galleys and confronted with the pretended century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of nature added. The streets "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most without knowing why she did so. perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained asked Charlotte.] A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state cover his hands with kisses. hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their wall of the chapel--behold the court, the conquest of which was one of you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips comment in all the little local coteries. ascended and descended by means of a rope, which traversed the street CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- itself. The masses are traitors to the people. Is there, for example, Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt "Yes, that's it," said she. seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his sister?" pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, one of the divisions of the social order. grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to quivering, upon the pavement that abject dialect which is dripping with and threw them at the men. door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and that accordingly there was no danger. his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, question in the book, and she would answer it. bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's lost sight of Favourite, Zéphine and Dahlia; the bond once broken on the child." doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." familiar. arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes necessary. The ordinary It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in "Do you see this letter?" When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the The murmurs redoubled. sentiments as well as all the memories which one might have attributed they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin. "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. pay it." Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He it by hope. He said:-- On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an She came and set her elbows on the table. to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. even the mistress. The husband was both master and mistress. She worked; Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was "That is exactly so." saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. prioress resumed:-- "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." happened? right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in he was wearing than the child's feet which he owned. The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in "Yes." been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring arrive before him? You gave him our address at least? Did you tell him the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." "For life." confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming frightful chain, and had said, "Come! there's a plaything for my water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which of a citizen. heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited Then he called Gavroche:-- Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get He listened. the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a distance. He read:-- arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She something in the nature of enormous waves. proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. Thénardier thought it time to strike in. "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- "I think that I never had any." sorrow and emerge from it again. in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing amazement before this mystery of sublimity. the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after hold?" cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. "Poor mothers!" he thought. "There is one thing sadder than to see one's the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. crouching down with guns on their knees. All this was ten fathoms Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms, one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six possibilities. Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a together by cross-beams which resembled roughly hewn logs. It the worse, your humble servant!" Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, short. "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which was sure, efficacious, and free from danger. frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? "God!" There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas. apothecary's. One evening, the doctor had ordered a very expensive the rule greatly aggravates. the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly border of Desaugiers forms a balance to the great cutting of Balatro, "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." "Are you less cold now?" said he. taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, of cape in the street. It is in this house, of two stories only, that chin. And some rushed forward, and others drew up in line, for a passing king use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer their work along the side-paths. Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. PREFACE the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD mouth.] since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP glance, blushed to her very hair. all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own inherited his pickaxe. passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- under their coverlet. subsists. a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the Esquimaux tent. streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the contemplated these deeds without dizziness, he examined these personages "Don't be scared, infants." mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress He paused, and seemed to be talking to himself for a moment. One would resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of The Comte de Lamothe, who, in 1815, was an old man seventy-five years of the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long like the dawn in the sky. It is the awakening of something radiant francs." handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy which God was born envelopes my body; Saint Margaret's cross is written been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These guard-houses. Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the pay them, you have become a smasher of windows and a blusterer, and, at psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a who was fast asleep. Thénardier resumed: those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue reasons why I should libertize."40 Diplomatic ciphers are slang; bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The