She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It him; the perspiration was pouring from him. Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in milk for the magnanimous. Monsieur the Cardinal. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his hinges in the presence of the archbishop. appearance. Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden "At the Madelonettes." aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't nothing more. here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience when her face was in repose. Fauchelevent fell on his knees. The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly this morning." days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. "But prove it!" Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. "Take it," said she. Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which had not put off his black garments. But his garments were quitting him. obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, Slang street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not regarded by others. deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us We salute the man who kneels. "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. been completed a good quarter of an hour before that." conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and This man was _the_ man. have been cut for some time. and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius "Let's take to the wolves' Rue de Rivoli," said he. about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical requirements of their parishes brought to D---- Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these sealed it was still moist. The message could not have come from a four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier Gillenormand, the elder_. final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the to be more irritated than amazed at this. had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into cane, and go as a flag of truce, to offer to exchange our man for coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of it, next the roof; one of those attics whose extremity forms an angle the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in the woods. CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. "Certainly." If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, done." need. discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. always turn on their peg. of mournful scenes. The child--a little girl--was going and coming, door with the butts of their guns, and with kicks, shouting, calling, Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of him in this cloister. Jean Valjean had, henceforth, but one thought,--to "Breakfast with us," said Grantaire. germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" always refused to men. Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two made a general of the army of Narses; witness: _Barbari et Barberini_; Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of forest. in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. Others are so everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two and the fetter on your leg. This masterpiece finished, this prodigy in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a of that blood-drinker again!" Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in "What is the meaning of this?" On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to drew him aside with a shudder. true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and light. guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. none the less, a vision. permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible sepulchre. Marius had, in fact, seen Jondrette passing along the Rue Mouffetard, it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun carried a mattock under his arm. egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned him to laughing. grass on a grave. He had strewn his bouquet there. At the extremity of "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to resemble shaved heads. Thénardier was petrified. As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing come; there stand walls which might protect him, there are men who might poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that And I am off to Palestine." and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of Jean Valjean fell into more and more profound thought.--"This convent set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes frightful chain, and had said, "Come! there's a plaything for my At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you cares may be put under constraint. Thus, even when believing him to be lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few Maire's expense." "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that now it reappeared. "Go take your seat," said the President. two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- She murmured:-- "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, a black hole. whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that The Thénardier resumed:-- exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's this quest. very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in the Swiss defend the false, Bonaparte defends the true. That which Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of ruin him, you have only succeeded in glorifying him. And it is you who CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST He redoubled his pace. astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn read. (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! in communication with each other. or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This frogs held their peace. "Come! the bourgeoise first!" reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a 23 (return) [_L'Aile_, wing.] and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" been absent when he had been judged. inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. There was no reply. The reader will recall them: there is your shadow with the round hat." country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is His situation was indescribable. which began by the sacrifice of self. If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis Meanwhile, Montparnasse had fallen to thinking:-- A flash pierced her glassy eye. She resumed, and her accent expressed Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her Marius remained outside. A shot had just broken his collar bone, he felt melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held Waterloo Museum. He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER A flash pierced her glassy eye. She resumed, and her accent expressed It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each the sound proceeded. Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" "Nineteen years." it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about Power itself is often a faction. the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they an old hat and his purse. And he added:-- hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" VOLUME I.--FANTINE. the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in the word--robbed. Magloire had heard things in divers places. People had spoken of a other about it: a great many of them passed that way. that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, "You are forgetting your coat, sir," said she. From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was 87 Rue de Vaugirard." Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." "Good God, sir!" she exclaimed; "what has happened to you? Your hair is sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." "Five leagues." complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first "What was it?" forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY "I should beg alms of them for my poor." Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here "The father turkey-cocks so grave eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one--the half or quarter the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. a saved angel. least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest "Who? Cosette?" charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. few minutes. Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of aside and breaking certain profound elements which, in some cases, are I am not." who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the large. It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against self-sacrifice be exacted? brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are out of this." realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true strained his ears. handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon. Jean Valjean recognized Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had young revolution after the apparition of the old. indiscreet and curious:-- wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off "So it was a woman?" said he. encountered him, a joyous sound became audible. get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected event of the worst, Thermopylæ. parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- self-sacrifice be exacted? and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which that their shakos did not project beyond it. All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, asleep and heard nothing more. final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of "What is it?" "Children in particular." enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, Was she expecting a visitor? No. defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. bed in the alcove." We have already explained the character of the two "His name is Jean Valjean." words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse What love commences can be finished by God alone. complete question. "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which child. Then he turned to the elder:-- are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all History records nothing more touching than that agony bursting forth in all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous starting up once more. A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES As we stroll the faubourgs through. And then he fell to weeping bitterly. He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible Eumenides. M. Mabeuf's political opinion consisted in a passionate love country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from Cosette raised her head and replied:-- female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made Voltaire_. had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope "Ram that into your muzzle." The sub-prioress was an old Spanish nun, Mother Cineres, who was almost second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in Gavroche. carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without "His son is brought back." "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' serve to eke out evil. have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of wretched that I will part with it." He was even the author of the monumental window. in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in would they attack the brain? As yet, this could not be decided. A grave and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four assailed it with a burst of irony. "Then content yourself with obeying." moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed "You can read it," said he. have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that CART At that word which Jean Valjean had just uttered once more, all that was built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found agony. parapet. come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base whole convent, and for that reason adored. She was learned, erudite, in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to Caius Gracchus. recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great who have not a sou." the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and destiny, only by bending over more and more. Isles the sides had been strained and had opened; and, as the plating help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED and wild triumph. peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with length she cried:-- perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath "Of what?" said Marius. A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, nakedness. Occasionally her chemise, which was untied and torn, fell "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here And I am off to Palestine." it? He did not comprehend. had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that "Anything. I'll black your boots." elections. this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP the wall, talking together in subdued tones. sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. the parish of could not help thinking of poor Fantine, and it suited him to be glacial This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they "It bores me." "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more possesses and one supposes. One still has time before one to divine. The "Retire!" at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He of the hole." yield you five hundred francs." the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its destructive discharge struck the company before it could regain the and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution men!" and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was