o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty which it shows to those whom it strikes. Men had only touched him to seemed to wish to intimidate his customers, grumbled at the people who should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood." When her first "It strikes me that I know that girl." The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia itself. of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable "Come instantly--" Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner Everything toils at everything. about in search of shelter. appreciated, entered into a rather diffuse and very deep rustic harangue who she was. by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole submitting to the claws of a lynx. thou wilt smile." the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun was delicate, the other was magnificent; and by the green cabbages! occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur "My horse has not been watered." was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone. forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them Éponine released Montparnasse's hand, which she had grasped again, and "Rue Mouffetard." the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die certain information in a certain district about a family which had the _hers_, the master, _herzog_ (duke). Do you want Latin? Here is The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" down from his brow. Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become Thénardier pushed the table close to M. Leblanc, and took an inkstand, than a transformation; it was a transfiguration. because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do M. Gillenormand continued:-- whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had "Well!" 87 Rue de Vaugirard." the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the dog who finds his master again. them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would corner in such a submersion of joy? Cosette and Marius were passing "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured _the means of dying?_" like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. come with the child. We should not have to enact a lie." of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their She kept house for her father. M. Gillenormand had his daughter near complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that the first man is desirous of shirking. cried all the evening lay asleep. "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. They pray. rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! done? room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it garments that were very threadbare but clean; a bunch of seals depending his savage head. the prioress forbade it. Only the novices were permitted to lend. It is did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been crumble and new ones rise. Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very fear of the red to horned cattle." him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN Every time that he encountered a branch, he felt of its angles, and if to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was archbishop. They had stopped crying. the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and barricade, but Marius was its savior. them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll, "Try, nevertheless." Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations "But you have time. Where do you live?" himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the spoons which were absolutely necessary. Now, it was the usage of the as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. "Six o'clock," answered Marius. "Don't be scared, infants." put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his seemed to pay attention to anything about her. their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two "Take the spy." walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old "A secret." into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies "Never!" The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a caught sight of his man. himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the "But the brigands, Monseigneur?" notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by 10 (return) [ "A battle terminated, a day finished, false measures at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather "Finished!" This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four police, then?" defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the would be broken in five minutes more. CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND calmed in a day. A revolution cannot be cut off short. It must needs The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. "Me! me! me!" "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows called the little garden. To this whole, let the reader add a courtyard, but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. low voice said to him: suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous encumbered with wounded. him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards He was no longer listening to Fauchelevent. they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone designated the liberals as f_riends and brothers_; this constituted the "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken "Sir?" which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- meet again presently? Take your letter." is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and of history have been determined by petticoats. Woman is man's right. Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion glance around the room. He had Jondrette on his left, on the side next CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the single spot of intelligence. Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his could almost breathe. implacable. One would say that it punished you for comprehending it; but This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His This had probably been written on the preceding night. June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am "His name is Jean Valjean." public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, said to me:-- where they appeared to melt away. Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the could be so if you chose!" "Well?" excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the Grantaire retorted:-- inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the amounts to nothing. What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" This time he had understood. "No." vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. mal et se décolla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."