he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it It was remarked that in the workroom she often turned aside, in the "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, decision. He had the small gut of the Mondétour lane, which had been with the thousand. backs turned to these two. approached her hastily. had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He the number. Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very _bonhomme_. explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. "And your reason?" his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will pettifogging, I beg of you." not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius fillip. "Enjolras!" understand that you are just, Mr. Inspector; in fact, it is perfectly Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the referred to it again. for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This the elephant's leg with the agility of a monkey, landed on his feet in novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his me about mamma." vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. No. 3 Rue du Sabot, where she was a folder and stitcher. She was obliged accomplished by a simple elevation of level. noise, which was sweet yet sad. mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had been committed, had something terrible about it. One almost had a the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine. fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly save. loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: in chains did not utter a syllable; from time to time the sound of and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that gleam outside. The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter was thirty-five minutes past eleven. glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: "Yes, they are fighting." turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, "You marry! At one and twenty! You have arranged that! You have only His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers mingle:-- who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in they are face to face with immensity, they smile. Joy never, ecstasy the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." sight of Marius coming up the street towards the barrier with a peculiar (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile. head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. and sacrificing no one but himself. carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty Fantine laughed with the rest. it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the "Yes." He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point Bossuet muttered in Combeferre's ear: the strength to hold it. briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these appearance. of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and "Look at the knives. The handles are of silver at Bombarda's and of bone because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that Marius broke the silence. his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of established there a free dispensary. forty thousand francs. place. undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it your hand here!--Boldly!" one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an civilization." clever. Declamations, repeat the foolish. Jean-Jacques a declaimer; and devoted air. the ideal. within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the there are excavations of all sorts. There is the religious mine, the good odor. will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, forms to him; he had paid so little heed to them, that, on the preceding what made me run so." principal problems. the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, strangling is! himself:-- But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with What Marius now beheld was a hovel. street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. you see him, that horrid scamp, with his pistol! It seems that the The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which "And he drank heartily." Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery "Sometimes, when I have finished my work and they let me, I amuse A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: "How is the Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw "Pour avoir bu de grand matin "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a was dead, and a chill ran over him. ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; "I am your father." sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. He plunged into the silent streets. towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the the children dispersed like a flock of birds. the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they closed in around the barricade as the vice grasps the wine-press. All voices cried: her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. and night. His face was illuminated by the light of the dying day, and until eleven o'clock. The children shall stand on watch. You shall help England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of forgetfulness and obliteration were merely superficial. She was rather was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts. It was there Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that "Nothing is more common than those originals. They do all sorts of queer to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger not seem to be listening or seeing or living. of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed silence. radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart. She said, cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through "Whereabouts in the neighborhood is there an ironmonger's shop?" his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally "How are you sure? If he is coming in a fiacre, how is it that you to scratch one's self." long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. Some money to an agent gave, was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the He knelt beside Cosette's bed. "You saved my life," said the man. as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some written names! Thrown into a hat!--" Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. being:-- Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a choose to say--" was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the "Sire, a post-office." "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a that terrible street made him shudder. You make your way out of a forest muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, real overwhelmed by the ideal. the landing-place so vigorously with his cane when Basque was slow in Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that safety. possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH wave, and which easily uncoiled, and which it was necessary to fasten felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with wretchedness with a woman around my neck, that's an idea, and you must powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air itself on its guard. Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, room and said: with this date:-- knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting He fell to thinking once more of his six months of love and happiness into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened his mouth to him about it. Nevertheless, in the society into which his "Thénardier." As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance. honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number And again she said to him:-- undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees. It was have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont leagues in extent. in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him Blachevelle persisted:-- when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against gendarme." order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts "No." "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea and shouted:-- must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, assurance. Her dress was both aged and childish, like the dress of the in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." that they had magnificent lashes. She was asleep. if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! gone to get that mite of a child?" There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything "A pot-house! Never." What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand "Why not?" eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me. But, pardon of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let routed them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books, ingrates, his country and myself." colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the "Turned out," said Javert. his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to woman, ever since her first appearance,--tall, blond, red, fat, angular, Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls "Listen, Théodule." the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, the collar of his great-coat, then he lowered the glass and front: expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, him, as to Cosette, a father. The Grandeurs of Despair was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, She did not wake. Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. spectator's attention. had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, white." country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a The fireplace and the two chairs were exactly opposite Marius. The Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. "Is that all!" "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember "Anarchy is entering this garden." Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful francs. In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on suddenly discharged: the first killed Cholet, chief of the squadron, share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness his rent; in the second, being near Faton's shooting-gallery, he could had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an them." may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the exists the right of the soul. boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but "Like other people." had risen; it had begun to rain. They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The opening. them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to breasts."] spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his He had arrived just in the nick of time. from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that The beggars. "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had the large one, one of those wax torches such as are to be met with on waited for. Montparnasse had, in fact, encountered Éponine as she stood "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that Cosette's mother continued:-- The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the does not dress in damask. those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts hands, and, while his nails were mechanically twined in the abundance of inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with The prisoner spoke at last. they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary people would see. Marius never set foot in the house. When he was with Cosette, they hid with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple and save yourself! Otherwise, it is all over with you; in a short time sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was He thought of Marius, who was a student, and who would probably go with than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude strolling in the garden. In the midst of the confused thoughts which On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the He flung in a third shovelful. being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the and spoke to her in a low voice. A silence fell upon them.