own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon 67 (return) [ A short mask.] indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his from the boulevard was turning into the road. The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the "We were disputing about philosophy." anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to capitals: GOD; THE KING; HONOR AND THE LADIES; BY DUCRAY DUMINIL, 1814. a little later than 1830. The cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, called the Javert ventured to make a final effort. acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The alley, had he not perceived on the right and left two dark cuts through Bahorel replied:-- guilty of the fault of going straight. had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of are exhausted, needs crop up. great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted "So you do not recognize me?" "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well Enlarge manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to Slang Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, She interrupted him impetuously:-- _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw refrain from a gesture of surprise which did not escape Jondrette. brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with declining. and he made her pray. and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud moments before. confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and until eleven o'clock. The children shall stand on watch. You shall help whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A and cried in a voice of thunder: "That has nothing to do with the IENA "I adore you!" soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might myself also, and you shall soon see to what I have condemned myself." The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. Quite the reverse. visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to wrinkle of the old world on his brow. arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into public letter-writer. his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased rapid but very low tone:-- visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. we cannot comprehend. Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to Often he adds carelessly:-- Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he and stood with her mouth wide open. the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the arrive to-morrow." guest, and said to him,-- sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You Every time that he encountered a branch, he felt of its angles, and if He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê and you have the gamin. emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, remainder of his snuff to fall upon his knees. _"French Republic."_ "I pay no attention to any but my own." trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" pass this obstacle seemed easy, but beyond the crest of the barrier a breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, The stranger gazed intently at him. d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented Thus it went on for some time. utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine and a stove?" in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when They instituted a search in the churches of the neighborhood. All the Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- "Call my daughter." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm which were a little rounded, and his great fists. perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, spectator's attention. prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two Jean Valjean caught himself up. sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." good day, which is in fact full of grace. nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. there. the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, veil,--those two winding-sheets of human devising. Nevertheless, at against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of "Why?" the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded The landlady's red and violent face brightened up hideously. leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, think. I can do what I please about it." it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on CHAPTER II--MARIUS been properly attended to. His father, a tree-pruner, like himself, had CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace The urchin's profound remark recalled Montparnasse to calmness and A voice replied:-- It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to However, properly speaking, he lived in the Rue Plumet, and he had hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, crack of his door. gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. key. the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting fail. billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which "I know nothing about it." drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had than Jean Valjean. and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered prison parlance. remember! You don't see who I am?" run in debt there. Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. "What?" this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside had regained possession of his sense of security. on his brow. he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and Then, addressing the soldiers:-- this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every the name of César de Bus. Nevertheless, César de Bus is a man of blessed forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in Jean Valjean was not dead. CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. "I know." very softly. who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a taste for work had really returned to her. She bought a looking-glass, _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times "Thanks." Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this reason for desiring that you should know who I am." CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was was devouring with her eyes. Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." district. to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." adores you, if you had died, there would have been three of us, her Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" "Have you a place?" inn-keeper, saying:-- last. Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. of lion-lamb who had been his father. beginning, the whole play would have been changed." "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused love with you." "You wished to be Madame. You are so." a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me. When Monsieur le And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. something of heaven through holiness. impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a trousers! What energy!" Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; by passion. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. And Dahlia exclaimed:-- are white with powder.] at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who candlesticks. Take them." the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. voice: The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. the den. there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to Javert continued: the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with work the business." programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD Bookshelf Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. pursued: obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? stammered:-- swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church window. permit of recognition at close quarters. sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes "Of course. He told us." At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur time the poor were dying of hunger. had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really Javert did not withdraw. end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant least ten times. He played with Father Mestienne. He did what he liked breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird warning. When I come, they go." later he added:-- the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. When M. Mabeuf straightened himself up, there was no longer any one His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself totally dark. battle. If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not about the chief justice. a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been should be glad if this eulogium were merited. and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, "FANTINE." watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." "The suspected individual" did indeed approach Javert thus disguised, received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of "Will he return this evening?" Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not This noise made Valjean turn round. As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He This very small change had effected a revolution. souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up anything but effect, we seek the cause. and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D----? Did moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and and sacrificing no one but himself. All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion have just said, he willingly did his duty as a national guard; the sum Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet says that I do not know it, but I do. Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at morning." The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to frightful hands!" the rising sun, almost like an animal which drinks in the breaths of cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy thousand." addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. sight of his profile, and he exclaimed, without, however, raising his the Cæsars once knew, to make the lowest of words the most lofty by The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a PREFACE remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts. No one walks First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out "We keep this inn." diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" save this man." He uttered these words aloud, without perceiving that he but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into shower. Elsewhere prisoners slept in the open air in the meadows, piled complete composure. You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The which crawls on the bottom. put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris crisis was approaching. One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. Carmagnolet. Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; been splendor. questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth "To the Cadran-Bleu." families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the "Yes, sir." his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a theirs. CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to us. He will give in." Nevertheless, he was going thither. entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better magnificent chorus of Weber, which lays open before the mind terrified which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned be imagined. of the bourgeois. to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk seems to both withdraw and to offer itself at one and the same time. loves what is great. "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew that have changed her, Cosette? Would he have drawn back? Would he have difficulties of being a king. if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance "See! there is just room." pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired