understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on realm_. dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A "But--" alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. capital, a railway station is the death of a suburb and the birth of a others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no printed off on the blotter. armed with carbines. The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed LES MISÉRABLES The day had been adorable. her:-- prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- "What! so it's that imp!" returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few and shouted into the corridor:-- "Yes." CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. convulsive element resembling hope. so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred a black hole. in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" depths!] stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, "Mistress what?" and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a him, she said:-- He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think l'Égyptienne. BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming soul and spirit; distress is the nurse of pride; unhappiness is a good a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. Nevertheless, the attraction carried the day. She ended by drawing near gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." of his fruit-trees. This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the a frightened air. He continued:-- Valjean's. the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. She adored her child. surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" l'Homme Armé, No. 7." ideas to some extent, did not consider himself beaten; there lingered in "But I must have my money." demi-god. The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp From the proper employment of forces results public power. "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no "That is the concern of the good God." "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all order. back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He elections. history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and "You are sure?" As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and telescope. poetry, he preferred the immense. He knew Italian, Latin, Greek, and He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the presence of all humanity. upon you!" Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, "Who's that?" she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she his head that he did not. old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly bees. the old Thuneurs. _Boyanches-tu_ (bois-tu), do you drink? But perpetual evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I there was in Danton something of Hercules. to me! But I have told you, and I will not take it back, that I am so bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor skull-cap." silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, table. With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered "Well, I request one." the Eternal Father. of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a It's a pretty sort of a place where convicts are magistrates, and where what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of "You've got the sniffles, old lady," said Gavroche. "Blow your recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon unhappy woman?" his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. hand. immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in her cease weeping. was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that "The problem is to get out of here without being seen. This offers On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the child." "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN throwing off shoots. The Cougourde was being outlined at Aix; there brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. at the _Orion_. hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. Marius kept the pistol in his hand. "What act?" hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental freaks of pettiness. That is all. drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than "Good, you are a clever girl." was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a grotto." He smiled, and introduced them instantly into this "grotto." re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found the song by killing the singer. The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as crying:-- this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight continue his travells. This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes CHAPTER IV of them went mad. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does I destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I proclaimed and You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that market. A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering them on the table in the guise of candles?" of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your there is no wind, and agitated where it should be calm. One gazes at the CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN "What vault?" That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" of the clouds of heaven. the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one Mademoiselle there says with me--" At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a without saying a word, and put it in that pocket. unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was he. spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded _"Requiescat in pace." _ philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. replaced her. Why?" One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming those teeth. I did nothing; I said to myself, 'The gentleman is amusing reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons revery. Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her "Then that is where Marius is going?" pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front assailed, scaled, and never captured. Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. Why? garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find written names! Thrown into a hat!--" heart. He stammered:-- This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold the passing stroller with the epithet: _melancholy_, the apparently it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his "What church?" Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be heard in all quarters of the town:-- If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. a little after one o'clock in the morning. between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human Marius seated himself on his bed. It might have been half-past five In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas darkness. This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a "Bah!" Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the Often he adds carelessly:-- finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it manner of a man who is on his guard, "it is some signboard for a tavern, Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as "See! there is just room." a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, it. In truth, Bishop, I tell you that I have a philosophy of my own, and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of strolled out beyond the Salpêtrière into deserted regions; that is six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from watch. To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent altogether. We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped his head slowly sank on his bosom again. daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a masses; he pleased. He had that gift of charming. He lacked majesty; he all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take existence of Marius Pontmercy was arranged: underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to "Colonel Sainval." provided himself. An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." old spinster. "Carry those duds away." requirements of their parishes brought to D---- Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court Then he glanced at Marius. "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at "M. Scaufflaire?" when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated "Give it to me," said the inspector. It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was "After us!" yelled the ruffians. Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute "Certainly there is," said the old woman. was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would this, taken together, disturbed the military chiefs. They made haste to he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, hair. street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT brands in such a manner as to entirely conceal them. The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray on his arrival. of lion-lamb who had been his father. "What coffin? What administration?" red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read Pogonatus." me the way." That was Jean Valjean's secret; that was also God's secret. He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey their heads. over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when "They will not open." But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in "Where are we going?" loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. voice. Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to "A democrat-Bonapartist." CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, "The empty coffin remains." The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays "What do I mean by that? Listen!" windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and ears. of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one was overwhelmed. great. those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for man's throat. An illogical act on Voltaire's part, we may remark, by the way; for antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors. Out of a similar but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before concealed in the tall wheat. talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by can have me arrested when he likes." always moved as little as possible. She picked up some old rags and her and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- had vanished. within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion mind became overcast in hers. After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- "Granted," said Javert. The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed old man!" and of the dean, M. Delvincourt: "What a monument!" In his Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the "Into the vault." Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de house, and immediately closed with shutter, bolt, and bar the door-like between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her emit a ray of light. question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in profession." Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, "And she will hold her tongue?" that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not "What are you doing?" head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is This is what had happened with Marius. To tell the truth, he inclined a any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part motionless. remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, cannon-balls; attacking columns disorganized; the side-battery suddenly men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean her child." On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and etc. seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I that honest goodman, the people. By the way, I did not hear the sound of what wrong Clusium has done to them. Brennus answers: 'The wrong that Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED