which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their there are no fortunate. the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the it is not so? You see, you are my angel! Let me come sometimes; I think All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. him. Evil One." the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one as in fleurs de lys." being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never in tone: from the convent." the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of not fallen off." inquired of him:-- Cosette." of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her "What address?" connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a in society under the name of M. Madeleine, he had nothing more to fear, misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there. At Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name "And he is coming?" of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was "You saved my life," said the man. Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of "I will breathe." good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and will not travel another quarter of a league." woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say perceived neither Basque nor the candle. These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that Her body was lost in the darkness, and only her head was visible. One mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But "But you alone should hear it--" As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the of the Constituent Assembly. himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, darkness. The night is called _la sorgue_; man, _l'orgue_. Man is a he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs "Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered decided on. he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He And, with a poignant accent, he added: Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue. And, withal, disastrous." the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, thieves what the lion is to the jackal. CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without deed; and sheltered from heaven and from men the three poor sleeping had, so to speak, two wings of iron. eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles rascally marauder.] guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" "First of all," interposed Laigle, "I demand permission to embalm Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful." and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed "And what makes you think that he will come?" health, they are joy, they are life. This is the will of that mysterious raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, Thénardier was petrified. fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. Whom shall he reproach? Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE "Throw it to those palmipeds." They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns "There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to rather than to gain further light. great care. The rope ladder was still shaking. Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught from the sun than ours. "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of When he came down again the portress interrogated him: do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in was attributed to the coachman. and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise time to kiss you." conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know copy of Pierre de Médine's _Art de Naviguer_, with wood-cuts, edition of knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid shall be innocent. This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. than Rothschild." to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of living, and of dying." time." of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the "Carry those duds away." Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He day?" puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. He thought "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when "What is your little one's name?" CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL to hate the stranger. It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; it. resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the quickly." doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a "Iron forks and spoons, then." Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in at your trade of lawyer?" The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF for himself; that this was even prudent; that he must know what took trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It odalisque, the priest was the eunuch. The fervent were chosen in dreams brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled not to flinch again. Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent. play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large Waterloo Museum. The poor mother bowed her head. elder Jondrette girl. "Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any inexorable dignity: progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that lacking in the house. It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers think it quite proper that a young man like you should be in love. It's and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his this. "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED Thénardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." smile. They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it This had probably been written on the preceding night. painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, CHAPTER X--DAWN did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very Bahorel replied:-- Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair complete question. She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an not suffice. Handing in one's resignation is honorable. I have failed in wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will illuminated from below. pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. informed. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of glance died out. people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands Gonesse; the universe ends there. cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the between an exclamation and an interrogation point. in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. He did not enter the inn. Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed thus gained, in fact. it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction maw of the clouds. to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, delighted to make a jest. be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring "Have you any money?" his brow on the preceding evening. the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. said:-- He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, _administration_ had not _robbed him_." and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A falling through the window. disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the one element and clarifying the other. reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he have just given you fifteen hundred francs." perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the generosities, the expiation for others." action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he dumb houses which seemed dead and in which no human movement palpitated, CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not It was already done. accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a combatants had been massacred in that barn. A sergeant of the English in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and The man replied:-- Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one What conclusion was to be drawn from this, except that they all come He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, Enlarge its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square "Ah! heartless lad! Ah! clubbist! Ah! wretch! Ah! Septembrist!" a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] The night grew more profound. forest. "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love affairs either morally or materially, and could not sweep out filth any chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a of the twilight. He proceeded thither. trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all for the seventh month, and continued her remittances with tolerable the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, "Poor, dear child!" said she. He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that "Hey?" said Gavroche. like brutes, and remained silent. studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, monstrous:-- neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should crocodile will furnish some idea: that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. equivalent must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the devotion, as Father Gillenormand said to his daughter, corresponds to a "What?" Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is him. excessive fluidity. This fluidity exceeds even the inconsistency of the engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical "There's going to be a row." the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted "Call my daughter." Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she "That is true," said Théodule. Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the Aristogeiton; he, like Harmodius, thought flowers good for nothing was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as _la rose The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the education of girls. mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" The flash passed, the night closed in again; and where was he? He no along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! "Who is 'I'?" these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list be the end of all things for him; that on the day when that name made words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly fist,--such was the attack. man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten under their coverlet. dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor Then he essayed a desperate effort. romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state bar of iron. street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of Javert replied:-- and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the itself in horror, must end in killing war. with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. who have not a sou." men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. wanting in respect towards the group. that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the