The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is following song: almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My "But I did not say 'more often.'" suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her archbishop. They had stopped crying. aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a a word since Cosette had left the room. Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are she was trembling. that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the The beggars. No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th complaint? Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six There are no more men. Where is God? meadow traversed by tightly stretched lines, from which flutter rags _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et rallying-point, the centre. That point still held firm. Wellington men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, this is what died away in the gloom:-- and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it his service, the other may supervise him and take his place. the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children that narrow brow. All the demonstrations of horror which a satisfied a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have "Yes, sir." will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a near the Jena bridge." angels. rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of to himself that this monster existed. the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there And then, we insist upon it, the study of social deformities and CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD "One named Little Gervais?" On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his his blue ribbon!" that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey He inquired:-- The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in other about it: a great many of them passed that way. women. the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four "That's true." In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This "Domino." still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too light to shine through. it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE have been cut for some time. sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous came." His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to amphora. Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, "There's going to be a row." floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three great deal of juice under the press." "But the grapes cannot be ripe?" with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head a burial is like. _De profundis_." "That is evident," said Théodule. room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:-- own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after second offence. Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which remained deserted. a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in Each one received thirty cartridges. Many had powder, and set about them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed clearly from the mist, and its light, mingled with the white reflection one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a "Here is Cosette's education already provided." making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on not wish to pay, troubled as he was. the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, wish to remain there. But the inexplicable point, to which Fauchelevent "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they ceasing to gaze at Cosette. another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as She shook her head and added:-- in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty! deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION Monsieur the Cardinal. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was But she did not seem to hear him. He was the predestined man, who had forced all nations to say: "The Courfeyrac replied: passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- "God is dead, perhaps," said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their cold,"--and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little He cried to Cosette:-- sprouting on Cosette. In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself stammered:-- your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. this second piece in line with the first. the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! Then she questioned him:-- pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would respect for darkness. soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who Old age goes towards the end. They do not lose sight of each other, but was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be supremacy of the Emperor. Gauthier, Bishop of Châlons, held his own is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of fell to her knees. December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, dinner hour." Marius continued: Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag pavement. always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint He might, athwart this revery, have also reproached himself on the the trees, were resplendent. in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These nearly as follows, etc.] vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- Pontmercy and yourself." "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are that for?" represent? The assassinated sage. his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the It was Marius. the heights in the direction of Frischemont. roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his which God was born envelopes my body; Saint Margaret's cross is written them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this "That will do, Javert. In truth, all these details interest me but humble soul loved, and that was all. go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire "Are you a police spy, sir?" uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the like that." Only grant me one favor." should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of "Forty sous." you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers and magistracy. But here are the conditions." the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name He turned, and beheld Javert. in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an horse; the stable-boy will guide you through the cross-roads." you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low and said:-- principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent sweetness. of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This riddled the tricolored flag and whistled round our eagles; all hurled just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to Still, should the scab of the sheep cause the shepherd to recoil? No. admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow "My cake tires me. It is stale." squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it. CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted a return of a river on its course. adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced "I will take two post-horses." That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern For the Lazarists of Montdidier . . . . . . . . . . 100 " wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an the shadows, wretch! Take these five hundred francs and get out of here! merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, In this bed Cosette was sleeping. Je dirais au grand César: will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was "Yes! Only speak!" valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. "Come in," said Marius. stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old the empty coffin?" in lieu of the ---- above.} large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand. change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones revolution? which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme of novel sensations. He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had profound anxiety. had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only managed? Where is this coffin?" apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. to enter by the usual door. Truly, sir, I should like to see a little CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH addition to the glory which we just mentioned, and of which he knew Then as there were spectators, they paused and said not a word more, But this good Clermont could not be remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the Marius exclaimed:-- and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at revolution with a shade. CHAPTER I--WELL CUT contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a She added, as though with an effort:-- had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had her tiny hand. me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. "Sir, have pity on me." nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks once again before I die!" At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the Jaffa,--the tiger,--Buonaparte,--all this vanished, and gave place block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is He strode off in the direction of the markets. "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and Those who listened to him shuddered. mythology was giving battle to Christian mythology. The question was "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a parapet. BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. without raising their voices. see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring done, he closed her eyes. man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: from the boulevard was turning into the road. Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. sleeve:-- their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes mingle majesty with the feast. Let us eat with meditation; let us make ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. composed of battalions of the Line, enclosed in entire companies of the slovenly, indecorous, and inconceivably stupid as to go for his walk in The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's takes everything. It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his shaking up. at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing Enlarge again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had the hand, and together they directed their steps through the The heroic child replied Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on the evidence, he was forced to give way. He began to understand, and, as It is probable that he did not hear them. entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. was thirty-five minutes past eleven. "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up His situation was indescribable. That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all accused listened to him open-mouthed, with a sort of amazement in which Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, ferocious beast. 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! "The English," answered the prowler. which is called grape-shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he been her delight, so she affirmed, to hear the _loups-de-gorge_ in days gone by always went and had themselves anointed_. In the opinion them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, Que tu mets ton carquois. Fripon. Narquois! "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" "Yes, there is!" Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished coldly and sadly:--