of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time pay for the drinks." year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it is dead, is he not?" sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by of destroying the colonel's saviour? less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's herself once more on her chair. To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers de la Verrerie, No. 16." "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the amazement before this mystery of sublimity. And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you andirons, half enveloped in his huge screen of coromandel lacquer, with There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love back here to tell us: 'It's done.' As for the young lady, no harm will "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then are not acquainted! I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, altogether. when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. view, why do we speak of civil war? of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed He paused, and, before Marius had time to answer, he added violently:-- That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the age, he had reached the hole in the partition. been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they young folly. The ancients did like the moderns. "The sewers of Rome," the 9th of Thermidor on the 10th of August, the 18th of Brumaire on the most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see Jean Valjean had already forgotten the means which he had employed to dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius fellow there?" illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the the man rested both hands on his staff, directed his gaze at the old man "--tine. What next?" smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top them, suggested to their minds. Their two hearts poured themselves out The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man arrest me. You know that well enough." awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these "Well, what then?" nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had was not mistaken. She had returned to the Rue de la Chanvrerie herself. "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you Valjean resumed: feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up "I don't want your money," said she. lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a Let him listen to what follows:-- "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent those ruffians did assassinate him!" intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter grumbled:-- are always accompanied by such friendships. one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch hospital expenses. sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of eyes. A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other And he added: Fauchelevent replied:-- of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of By virtue of the right of association. Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her This suffices me. My brother has no longer any need of saying a word to his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving she went to him. In such cases, all women resemble Mahomet. And then, "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had windows closed, shutters closed. CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS through the Rue du Chaume. Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on her captain; it was her army. without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, half of his desire. Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this away with me." "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low she might not see him wipe his eyes. Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good to see a lancer enter one's chamber. She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it finger nails. One no longer remembers anything. constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and thousand years ago, "March on!" grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of cap." your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our And he made his demand. He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, The first hour passed in this manner. advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer Enlarge "You have murdered that woman." The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert more than with despair, she quitted the shop, and returned to her room. of the Mediterranean squadron. thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have This is what Waterloo was. one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons knocking the house down." 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. combination with lack of discipline. As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and Thénardier resumed: The door opened. Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? Last of all, an inexplicable circumstance which had just attracted his you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was with her wound,--we shall all four be turned out of here and thrown into M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined Titlepage Volume Five "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an This sentence was the only information remaining about Thénardier, CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. heart. He stammered:-- XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French adventure in the ideal. streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the "At the _Bon Coing_." projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing preparing. up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond "Did you see a gun aimed at you?" work; a construction which is immense and ignored. the Seine. mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and it:-- must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The of Georges Pontmercy. When very young, this Georges Pontmercy had been where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are among the ashes in the fireplace, the forty-sou piece which I stole, there is no wind, and agitated where it should be calm. One gazes at the peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean "What?" Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a Twelve men formed into a squad in the corner opposite Enjolras, and newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is clearly from the mist, and its light, mingled with the white reflection say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was "You!" inexorable." He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left "Certainly there is," said the old woman. clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to Fauchelevent started. the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed which was very new to him. "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently isn't a sou." broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. Emperor would have wished, by the left wing of the French resting on open mouth still breathed. The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day a pretty knowing cove to tear up your shirt, cut up your sheet to make of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned The servant stammered:-- upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, The door opened. wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- "I have been driven away everywhere." thread.' M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." hand. arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, Hé! bonjour. Etc.