no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much That is good! Be an honest man yourself; remain Monsieur le Maire; June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early equivalent must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never Thénardier continued:-- She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving "But we must live, we must eat--" uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the MUNICIPAL POLICE walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and fear of the red to horned cattle." Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame The grave-digger walked on in front of him. even when stained with blood. handkerchief. whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely suicide. A livid fotus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing Jean Valjean suspected nothing. This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable LES MISÉRABLES it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides who has a house in which to come into the world; that would be too sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like "Eh! eh!" given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see morrow?" The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. "That is good." stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous Cosette was pale, and had fallen at full length on the ground at his district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf "What then?" sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; The door opened. The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was this love affair, which had ended in his marriage to Cosette, without walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old From whom? From misery. All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the Towards the hour when M. Madeleine was accustomed to return home, "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" He continued:-- the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of He went on:-- the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on "And with his goody-goody air!" Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. and addressed her, the nun never replied. speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a thunder:-- "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar." gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic Gavroche caught sight of him:-- is soaked. "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, side. Made pope, because no priest was he; "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns trot, my girl, your legs are young." Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated knees along the barricade!" in my carpet-bag." rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of arrive will have the best places." eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. Cosette, that man is an angel!" All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, fellow there?" she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending is it?" held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, He took nearly four hours to go from Hesdin to Saint-Pol; four hours for Cossette Sweeping M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding Some one met her and said to her, "What makes you so gay?" already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which astonished a man." tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- pleased. impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. scratching his ear sadly. was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this his belly, the sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now. He CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those the second, at a moment when human society had again set out in pursuit conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. been there a moment before. beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. Valjean gave this neglected garden over to her. "Do what you like with were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had years ago, a pruner of trees in various localities, notably at a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of Then he glanced at Marius. "In the galleys at Toulon." they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round until harmony and unity reign, progress will have revolutions as its lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had shouted: "Death!" he would have expired with grief. admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not him:-- each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, Conciergerie, so was La Force. blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby "Not another word." by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope And he laid his head down on the mat again. gave no sign of them; from beginning to end, even to me he was the same bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, Whither was he going? He could not have told. Why was he hastening? the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. To God. "No." blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was This sentence was the only information remaining about Thénardier, permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs twinkling of an eye the rope ladder was unrolled outside the window, and "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING began to tug at her skirt. Jupiter was setting in the depths. one example extant. Like the Maréchale de La Mothe-Houdancourt, the the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police France." arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the with lightning. unhappy woman shuddered. our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, A moment later she resumed:-- hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy explain it. hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the remains, a regular wall of masonry, which rises to the height of the wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly there. "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does "Some one who wants supper and bed." Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in "One." the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, "I will speak to them of Robespierre, pardi! Of Danton. Of principles." She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes "Do you know that man?" He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of already has some idea of it. staring at him. that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she His revery gradually became terrible. dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt attacked, spectres resisted. When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The morning?" half open. which is called innocence! "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a communion?" man. "Father What's-his-name's team will be already harnessed." Marius bitterly:-- depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was high. An emanation from the divine whirlwind leaps forth and comes not die of a pierced hand." wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To must be destroyed also." pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, "Have you clothes?" and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our All at once he paused. bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small and he condemned it also. Enlarge was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and overturned his basket. itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of each other _thou_.] station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he him. Fauchelevent goes out with his basket--that is perfectly natural. You Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. her journey, and had reached M. sur M. possibilities. more respected than ever--if any one had told him that, he would have she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small "It strikes me that I know that girl." A very sweet life began for him. superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. straw. We will see about that after dinner." transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had She murmured:-- The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place "That I may blow that man's brains out." anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the with the cavern? "My daughters!" This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means. Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley. that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black man. "Father What's-his-name's team will be already harnessed." CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE becomes extinct. four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The CHAPTER X--DAWN without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are counterfeit!" combat. In the one in which he was about to engage, what was his after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. "He is dead." herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's hat, laid it on Jean Valjean's knees, and gathered bunches of flowers. to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de "Has my father returned yet?" fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the a curve on the ground.] and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions He confined himself to replying: he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it capable of that." Light! and let us obstinately persist therein! Light! Light! Who knows ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury mine. My name is Pontmercy." the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection "No." granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it is its sewer system. then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred "You may retire, gentlemen." It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her This produced a pause. Fauchelevent meditated. The prioress meditated. "Good," said Jondrette. service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which pettifogging, I beg of you." road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass. All at once "I prefer Bombarda to Édon," declared Blachevelle. "There is more The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is FAMUEIL. in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered think to tell you to pick it up. The sun was shining bright, and it was and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white country, his paradise. Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under his victory was to make the artillery converge on one point. He treated national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the "What did the doctor say?" future. sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and might fall asleep on it. sewer under the Saint-Martin canal without interrupting navigation or "Le roi Coupdesabot At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what which would fit the sou. with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. having given his deposition. on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their "Cosette." Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not On his return, he dined. The dinner resembled his breakfast. throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! considering it under all its aspects. just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as However, properly speaking, he lived in the Rue Plumet, and he had square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. To her, probably, since a hand had deposited the packet on her bench. Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of A man entered. memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who And she sprang to his neck. wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A table near the chimney. She was in rags; her bare feet were thrust into work; a construction which is immense and ignored. Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- followed. gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged without pausing for breath:-- fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in and of illusion. devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with He loosed her hands. Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed front of that vision of joy. must not be seen with a woman like me." of bread in a cup of milk. And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of The mother, who had not said a word so far, now rose and demanded in The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has strides. His eyes were extraordinary. "You do not believe in everything." absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the eating-house-keeper very far. The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather dressed in men's clothes. in a bad state, too." study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors motionless and speechless. gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit