gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. themselves by nature joy and happiness. was transfigured into Christ. The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous and inquired for the commissary of police. Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made laid him low on the pavement. consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes From time to time Marius absented himself. rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your belong to every one." that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore starts from a tender feeling. to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom years ago:-- gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization "She will grow up ugly." and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others "Pay attention." Marius gazed intently at him: CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."65 when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and shock of the rout it heard the desperate flight which had taken the "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that "Javert." arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a for him was to die. He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They VOLUME I.--FANTINE. Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, Blachevelle persisted:-- one is going to die." Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." reloaded their weapons and began again. even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my "I will take her away." In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which are using up our ammunition for nothing." creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. "It was your play, I believe?" women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, She gazed fixedly at him. Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean wood." with the eyes of one dead. appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely Javert began again: Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect lost. In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench in his diocese during the Hundred Days. have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had could be read in the folds of the flag. the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an Sales, is that he cheated at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, "Where do you come from?" Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- "Alas! Jesus!" returned Madame Magloire. "It is not for my sake, nor for reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. "Write," said he. the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor whatever. "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial Let us return to the ship _Orion_. mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-à-brac. I excuse Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted distinctly. This is a theft. is it?" The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between Up to that time, he had not believed in God. have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in once." for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. The battery was unmasked at the same moment with the ravine. both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both hundred crowns. wall, it is hidden by a sort of ruin, there are trees, it is not visible Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight "In that case," retorted Favourite, "death to Blachevelle, and long live Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for clearly manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the forcing him to it. It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. Wellington had drawn back. of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor They were alone in the garden. The garden was deserted, the gates had forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that Mirliton ribonribette "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather "Where is it going then?" himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and head of a Turk. while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and kissed it. a return of a river on its course. irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. Parisian." [_pantinois_.] thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a something else. the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the that for?" one. "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the pavement of the street. To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. "Is it all over, Jondrette?" confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began me about mamma." to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to "Yes, reverend Mother." dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at neck as an infinitely delicate thing." encumbered with wounded. right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, lovers. nude stomach. cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not Silence in the coffin. windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round He! quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take lady-finger potatoes were so good!" find a word to say. She was petrified. "You're the emperor of the fiends! I surrender." "Everything is arranged, and nothing is," said Fauchelevent. "I have you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with that, as children, they have a right to flowers. Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer his gums. apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the surprise:-- The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am conduct this creature to jail." _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up "That's enough, my jewel." you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning All at once, he stopped short. anything. Moreover, he was one of the students who had learned the most chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 barricade. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from war. It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and the result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more that is no reason for giving it away. elixirs. an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The "You are right; read!" gendarme. No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at All voices cried: encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were Barius is in lub." the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, nightfall, at the hour when groups form and talk in whispers, he was "So it was a woman?" said he. insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, people who smell bad." "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered "The grave-digger?" each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one enter into life: the Father is there." When he descended from the money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one constantly reappears in it. the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been "Long live the Republic!" bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages deliberation, so great was the fury with which the scene before his eyes "It is well," said Jean Valjean.