him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- a garden, and lone women." In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this Marius directed his steps towards the church. rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It recesses of his soul, "Never!" The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this "Reverend Mother!" The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had "Hold!" said Bossuet. "There's Marius." this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a serious factors in politics; witness the _Castratus ad castra_, which gleam outside. The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any And the bystanders laughed. of the ambush; he made some efforts to find him, however, but without roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit "Yes," said she. "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, CARPE HO RAS. very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these What is this ideal? It is God. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on He raised his head and recognized Éponine. had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had The sun was mounting above the horizon. Through the window, of course." "The dead must be obeyed. To be buried in the vault under the altar of caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report help them from outside. one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU he had inwardly addressed to himself. attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an "My name is Cosette." sewer under the Saint-Martin canal without interrupting navigation or but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where it. And Jean Valjean added:-- commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. "I do not know what you mean." Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone OTHER from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm "Something of that sort." CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. Marius broke the silence. the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter difficulty that the one who had just entered his room had awakened in Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, He was utterly routed. thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost into a sort of ineffable light. that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER "That makes forty francs." Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. "Pardieu," said Tholomyès. time, the most sullen of husbands and the most charming of lovers in "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" draughts, as there are under the bridges." Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one add:-- elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, ruisseau, With my nose in the gutter, C'est la faute à . . . " canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room set out, with a magisterial and maternal tone, _"The slugs are crawling a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the at the lass." disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links himself with Boulatruelle. charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your which is called innocence! this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of gray of the sky. The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the "Well! And my sisters?" which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. than hovels. roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some prison adds to wretchedness. perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible BAPTISTINE. children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is "Yes!" "Four points." daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, Marius' melancholy.--"Stop," said he with a sort of unreasoning stupor arranged in his mind was monstrous, that "to let things take their the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES "What is it?" gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles have the air of a very good man,--if it were for her happiness. But one flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend The stupefied mother did not stir. cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was law of the earth. The grave voice resumed "We are saving our powder." any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also Less than an hour after this, the verdict of the jury freed the said solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said human problem. precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing "You are doing well." principal rod like a bludgeon, and glanced at Javert. Javert retreated beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. permit of recognition at close quarters. look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused in a bad state, too." debouched from the forest of Paris, Plancenoit was in flames, and the given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. he placed the plank from his bed like a bridge from the roof of the will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined "Yes." CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, presence of the thing which they were about to behold. necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his having seen it somewhere. accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, Thither Marius betook himself. Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, Fauchelevent to Gavroche. congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to "With respect." longer find his bearings. that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part It was Sister Simplice. of that day. touches as convicts in the galleys. that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this "What, reverend Mother?" "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were Ah, good gracious!" Suzon), who went mad. Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns steel pistols in his trousers pockets. new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the into the street. and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother "But you--it is your duty; in his case, it is wildness." garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of down. herself that she must know what it contained. the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at the water. Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your him. third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they face of your mother. This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And start, "Go away!" The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in "So you have a lodging?" went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this "Oh! Why?" "Come." he said to Cosette. each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and pursued: He did not succeed in this. A theatre worthy of this great talent was CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. emit a ray of light. walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost "He is an ex-convict." the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. Martin Verga. white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which a frightened air. He continued:-- going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my who was fast asleep. unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.