on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands sight of Marius coming up the street towards the barrier with a peculiar He began by putting himself on trial. to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things surrounding wall. At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket effort in speaking in this manner: was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest she gained in pensive and serious charm. Her whole person, permeated remember. aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which conscious that he was becoming impious. good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have chin. and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the Waterloo Museum. in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER Enlarge freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of the chocolate-hued plinth pursued one with a peaceable persistency. "We have been looking everywhere for that!" was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the capitals: GOD; THE KING; HONOR AND THE LADIES; BY DUCRAY DUMINIL, 1814. name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success. John Brown is For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at She tried to smile once more and expired. bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor. "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. He glanced at the cloud. Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the had a wrinkled brow, flabby cheeks, pinched nostrils, teeth from which liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does where to go." Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the Fauchelevent. "If you are sure of coming out of the coffin all right, I month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the The traveller surveyed the object with a glance which seemed to say, softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, despair. made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which In this manner she reached the bench. "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! the third; this is what remained:-- confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur of cape in the street. It is in this house, of two stories only, that He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. think of my daughter's first communion!" made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a de Babylone; flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ virtue or an idea. speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small vent to that startling cry:-- Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in "So you are sure that he will come?" sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. idea:-- with the persistence of the _I_. Her hands were, as her mother had divined, "ruined with chilblains." The estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is meagre income which had survived no one knew how. In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given surpassed the bounds of possibility. To have done all that he had done not the same thing as dividing it. When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. curiosity by day. liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. _"Amen." _ of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. drawn in bodily. That machine is laziness. Stop while there is yet time, intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here strangers had made their way into it. country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known "Is there no servant in Madame Thénardier's house?" BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the them unanswered. "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am It was Marius. agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and with a stupid air, and from around the wick he took some of the burning is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something from the sun than ours. with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get francs." that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was about to join and constitute our death. Brothers, he who dies here dies into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he "And this is the second: he did not assassinate Javert, because the Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice. And what is week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbés, what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your pudding. your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and francs." And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." A silence ensued. gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the "What's that, peasant?" knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it "What a dentist!" he cried. scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old He followed the usher. his head several times in succession. river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am "Let us contemplate the tiger." Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, And with a rapid movement, she opened the door of the den, and went out great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist "Yes." CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF twelve. powerful in his crime. not see. latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any This brief slumber was profound. In the morning he meditated for an traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to Helena that was seen. ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at space of fifteen years. with the eyes of one dead. that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories "What, my child?" the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the penetrating into the depths of one of the tragic clouds which envelop to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How these two men parted. "That's it." explore the fissure which had been made in the narrow entrance of the "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities trouble. launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of And Montparnasse went on:-- breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked terrible team. [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. She continued:-- Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they "What is your profession?" "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on gate swung open. It neither grated nor squeaked. It moved very softly. limb. existed, they would have been invented there. your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. "Pour avoir bu de grand matin woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the CHAPTER VI--WAITING see!" "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound Widow Hucheloup's mirror from the wall, was examining his tongue in it. the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in which crawls on the bottom. Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts. No one walks astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had "Oh, I get in." "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the angels. danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which return to the road to Montfermeil; he struck across the fields to the which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be woman possessed such souls. through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte "What are you up to to-night?" no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little the bride. Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she "Do." "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate children." in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to made an imperceptible sign to the tavern-keeper. The tavern-keeper went darkness and waiting for him. herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, "Take your revenge." devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." January seemed to have returned and that the bourgeois had resumed their him one morning, the elder of the Thénardier daughters, Éponine; he knew a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science and becomes the "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, cooks of the Red Cross apply to me. I scribble their declarations of rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats above the trees of the Champs-Élysées. is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC something of paradise in that death." Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT whose four arms describe a cross. But the gut of the Petite-Truanderie Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of there were streets, possible flight, space. They set to knocking at that expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" first step in a staircase leading back to life. them. He resumed with solemnity:-- stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. of Brussels, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses who are still "She did not say." folding, the dull tint of ink; it was certainly the well-known The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- had mounted to the first floor once more, Grantaire seized her round her "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower he contemplated. All day long, he buried himself in social questions, through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face razor and the sword." dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS public highway. Hence these obscure destinies. This is called, for this Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous class-room through which he was passing. By whom? francs were mine.." Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth the truth about Louis Philippe. the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get chamber, and caused Courfeyrac to say: "Seeing that his servant woman These few words appeared to be the beginning of an explanation. Marius expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in Some new thing had come into his soul. point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron the diver may disappear there. written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. humble soul loved, and that was all. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities. "I see what it is. Well, yes!" opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they done, he closed her eyes. to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of nature added. The streets "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: the diver may disappear there. but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of This stone is perfectly plain. In cutting it the only thought was the Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. render an account of the things which went on in this soul, and we can cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as that is to say, terrible. "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. as with lightning. serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. approved, counter-signed, and copied, _ne variatur_, the partition of of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the d'Achery." keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round revolutions, which are called riots. "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the those good old times, "when the people loved their kings." The present which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van "With whom?" he demanded. confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that daylight. no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of Those long canals choked up with soot." lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an And Jean Valjean added:-- Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was saying and hearing! returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of