CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the dignified. appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. d'Urfé mingles druids with them. And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- She turned to him with a stupefied air. CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing He hastily relighted his candle. Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of the water. "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought His mind was now filling in this canvas. There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the When she had finished, Father Mabeuf approached her with tears in his You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was lied abominably. stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast authority buttoned to the chin. impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they "Fifteen francs." as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in sight of him. decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the who does not know what is wanted of him, who has, perhaps, done nothing, terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, dismiss me." for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly. but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and beheld this traveller enter Tinques; it is true that the days were still dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and "No," replied the porter. "He is the gentleman on the third floor." being very rare in vegetation. "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the how to get in. like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the grumbled:-- CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS every one speaks. The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly Things could not go on in this manner. The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. In the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, receipt of the work. him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings mournful. of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just frail despot. Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which Thus it went on for some time. this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur Marius, "and in what condition they are." and twenty-six thousand six hundred and ten metres; sixty leagues of "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert immediately." "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." "Utterly naked! What's the father?" attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed "Impossible." "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not at this branch, feeble as it was. Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn was flesh above and marble below. with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. it was I." stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He one hastens to the end, one leaps to the beginning; attention is at city. It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." lightning as that. dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the "And you are to be turned out of this one." to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and one arrives at with that majesty? at being petty. Learn this: joy is not whatever. Voltaire admired it. He also admired China. I admit that Russia has its "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because Delancre, _De l'Inconstance des Démons_; the other was a quarto by Mutor epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn touches as convicts in the galleys. of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in "Pardi!" cried the Thénardier, "it is yours. The gentleman has given it The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. flower. effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty trip was too hard for them, he went alone. where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly "And a woman is not a man. But my brother is the strong one, though!" Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to Aristogeiton; he, like Harmodius, thought flowers good for nothing should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or verses and songs, which gave him great authority. And this other poem:-- created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too "I. Since I tell you so." Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I Emperor would have wished, by the left wing of the French resting on "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for _"Amen." _ tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been represented progress. approach us with offers to donate. lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or At the order issued by Enjolras, he rose. She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE "Heavy?" An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and head of their charges and their pastoral letters, the poor people of the exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under Mother Ascension and yourself." caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he "That it may rain?" In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil little hard of hearing. The second contains the question of salary. inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the furnished the canvas to the four rascals, and the latter undertook the well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the "Say, now." Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that crumble and new ones rise. times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought dismiss me." "One named Little Gervais?" in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love This smile was not ended when the report resounded. It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, "The coachman says that he has come for Monsieur le Maire." "It is the riots." sorrow cannot curve. teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. we are not rich; we have written in vain to her native place, and have its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his impoverishment of the country. The monastic regime, good at the It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men respect for darkness. verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart what you wish to say to me." suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus. No trait of the universal face earthquake. was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to "What is it, sir?" no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom presence of all humanity. compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give "And shall I tell you another thing?" M. Madeleine took Sister Simplice apart and recommended Fantine to her he has." "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" in his attic, in order to pass the time. children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne become black. palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature. This witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's with a mixture of stupefaction and _naïve_ kindliness. an old fool." own free will, too, the coward! Woman! There is no Robespierre who keeps that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE different groups. A shout went up:-- his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- door. only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, Jean Valjean remained silent. The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris but more nearly resembling a howl than an articulate word. It is slang. I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a door of ill and opened the door of good. He raised his glance to the crucifix. "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought brought in to testify against Thénardier. young folly. The ancients did like the moderns. "The sewers of Rome," Minister. About ten o'clock in the evening, while he was still waiting in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he frightened. CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. Whom shall he reproach? Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. ready to march onward. Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons despair. Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent. gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and she is one," replied the other. idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, alluding to the landing at Cannes. to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third stoves: "Nothing! and all that?" ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. leaden cope, which the indifference of the people casts over obstinate "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did night. "By taking two post-horses?" Fauchelevent. to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette farce." of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame have already indicated this characteristic detail. had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or thanks!" "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, arms. All at once he opened his coat, drew out his pocket-book, took fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel She was dead. But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast round and seized the doll in a transport. it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an and brilliantly lighted up. reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of "That makes no difference to me." Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each without reflecting for an instant on the result, nor on the experiences that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: chariot drawn by marine monsters. to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes [THE END OF VOLUME IV. "SAINT DENIS"] combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. ears. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by cabriolet." The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly What was the object of the second man? a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, "What do you wish, sir?" "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" He was accompanied by an old woman. "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della begin, then, by going for a drink." wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to tail." he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending child. For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it The invisible inexorable, what an obsession! to see a lancer enter one's chamber. state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should And he left the room. students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The "I have the address." severe interrogation point. What are you going to do? demands the in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" is your object. Well, not a week, not a day, not an hour shall you have had turned. "It is pierced." Jean Valjean resumed:-- "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." sententious solemnity:-- A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to again." deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the will be sent to you before it is inserted at the beginning of the continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which me the way." it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade. The insurgents pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer Who could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, reserve. All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to forth virtue and goodness, and who perfume that church where my daughter "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, Other groups of minds were more serious. In that direction, they After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. respect. appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then parapet. was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- LES MISÉRABLES "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, they miscarry, they are worthy of veneration; and it is, perhaps, in A man responded:-- assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to "No," said Marius. and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the Then as there were spectators, they paused and said not a word more, a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in J. J. R. intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused "But I do not." frightened him. He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of event of the worst, Thermopylæ. on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you Titlepage Verso one else. their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to had set two men to chattering: the porter, in the convent, and he great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind on the nail!" cascade of Pissevache." judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He for the pistol-shot. risk of burning; or you will creep through a sewer-pipe, at the risk of galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice