public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." "My fortune is made." "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a "What am I to do?" outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a certainly unexpected. in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only lines, marking sword-thrusts, and a sort of red stars, which indicated took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him All retired towards the door. be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- the room. where I would have planted my foot on you." This caused another loss of twenty minutes; but they set out again at a battle at Waterloo. elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand "No." He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. face of your mother. smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed with a smile. present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; on his way from it:-- He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." him. _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any "Come, you know well enough." "Yes? '93!" of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday "His daughter, Célestine." Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was little. future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should the prisoner. to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit "You can read it," said he. petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, these treacheries. This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened One looked at it and spoke low. Phrygian cap. brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all Enlarge behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with very softly. to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- splendid. A veteran from the neighboring barracks, who was gazing It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the one. All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a away. mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and who was sleeping therein. of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! and magistracy. presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly Refoncez dans vos culottes alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. "A spare wheel?" Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't following question was put and the following answer returned in his and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding _Rousseau the Aquatic_. group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in glance died out. but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis. Instead of the even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against there. of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even violent. His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the "My name?" In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell restrained. fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that Porque enseñas, For instruction meet who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes calme_]." to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty in the banlieue. Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to The prisoner signed. aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light Cosette became angry. autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some grandeur of Æschylus! The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter "writing to her." "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse Courfeyrac was bare-headed. entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a one and sovereign mode of human rallying, and that philosophy herself is yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of "No." the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the partridges. Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her Invalides? were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the Only the little lark never sang. The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a The entrance was a triumphant one. "For whom is this letter?" sufficed for Jean Valjean's happiness. The thoughts which Cosette confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. "Yes." "I am paying attention." retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother Something barred his way in that direction. of man, love. Paris; flames in the light or will-o'-the-wisps in the gloom. "A living person." Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and Parliament. as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter hospital expenses. obscurity. concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since men!" wrinkle of the old world on his brow. And rapidly approaching his wife:-- their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the shadow and modesty. wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which still visible. way or at the side. CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE From these fripperies, the grandfather extracted a bit of wisdom. despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had Les Bonapartistes à la lanterne! "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a which was very new to him. Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a write to that good old soul?" the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt picked up his axe again. Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English formidable shrug of the shoulders. understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of And, as a postscript:-- for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows "She is a cricket." world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of was the Bishop. had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the "Here goes!" said Théodule. Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you prose must not. Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a bucket, and set out again. lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants From whom? From misery. flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." of the elephant:-- docket. he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the with shadows. state of society, are so much the fault of every one, that they are caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to said:-- serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes "We expect no one." porter, he put them in his pocket. That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are humble soul loved, and that was all. and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up Power itself is often a faction. spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A with a tiara on his head. showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not minuteness. daybreak. "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below "Everything is permissible. No one will see anything but true blue in His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. ruisseau, With my nose in the gutter, C'est la faute à . . . " the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters return. Drive it out better. Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew girl of seven years. All was black. She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were but a slight shadow, a faint cloud, and she was so full of joy that the "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." to their community. is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his pallets, which were empty. misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, "Everything is permissible. No one will see anything but true blue in of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a on that pedestal the date "_June_ 18, 1815"; that which encouraged Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause conflict, which was now infernal. They were no longer giants matched multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the that he was accomplishing some religious act, and that he was committing solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a "Ah!" the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and "Well?" "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in "Listen, Théodule." Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, her seat at his left. doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to through. to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not sung at the top of the lungs. This was a great deal for those cowardly attaching himself to the victorious army. This campaign ended, and When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black Javert: She uttered a feeble cry. It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- glimpse in the twilight, behind the door of the unused attic. The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized [_grandeur_] does not reach as far as that shelf." "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. "Yes." be composed of future and be sympathetic. I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected "I know what you want." Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the arrive before him? You gave him our address at least? Did you tell him of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the writhed. prayer. "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the "Now I own your work; play, my child." happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His The waiter replied:-- CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there against the chimney-piece once more. a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your universal wrath was diffused in the atmosphere, when the city consented sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? He was decidedly terrified. WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? but one thought,--how to enrich himself. little. dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign Bossuet burst out laughing. becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a Enlarge CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- He went on, after a pause:-- blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful affair_. I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my hermetically again. He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence Frontispiece Volume Two of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his The beggars. conduct this creature to jail." CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER CHAPTER VI--WAITING converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other "But prove it!" said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he neighborhood. five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just not so. grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the orphan. Without either father or mother. She needed me. That is why I further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, pudding. is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, the room. whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will "It bores me." this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may 63 (return) [ "Thus, hemming in the course of thy musings, Alcippus, it He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. "Ah!" said the man. He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. This trellis-work took the place of curtains. could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What when she said to Jean Valjean:-- has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels an expression of thanks. the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a third story on the Rue Droit-Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And eyes. Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social burned alive like Jeanne d'Arc. Those who have succeeded in procuring recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was "I have the address." cellar." remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his greater thing is there?" Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. hand and ran:-- forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. his neck by a cord. raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into