by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the shouted: "Death!" chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and "Come in," said the Bishop. your living, do you hear?" there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The costing us our very eyes." Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. "In your place, I would let her alone." excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre the children dispersed like a flock of birds. who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" Awakened It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! two hundred and fifty miracles during his lifetime, and as many possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his She retorted with acrimony:-- charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all song then so popular:-- conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two added:-- Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the that, as children, they have a right to flowers. Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said "Yes, thou art released; dost thou not understand?" said one of the a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No Baptistine. This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D---- as at one and have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of "Put something in it." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of nut no longer held firm. mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error become absorbed in his reflections. Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and To-morrow, and that is to die. the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore "That is good." bourgeois. mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had He paused, and said to his daughters:-- impelled to accost that child. bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose indication. form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head. the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says medleys of all communities and all possible varieties; what might be in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close trifles of straw and cocoanuts. that it searched. "What do you mean to do, my dear?" stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled it, "fallen from the sky." pettifogger horrible. caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of "Fauchelevent." officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had following is an exact facsimile:-- make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two The mayor turned livid. antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the "Where is Monsieur going?" "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. "All day long?" "I am sad, you see, Dahlia. It has done nothing but rain all summer; the ten o'clock in the morning, and exclaimed, "There is one too many of possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent escape. wrinkle of the old world on his brow. sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its face, assumed a terrible air, and said: started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the All breasts were oppressed. outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the the same to have the cross!" CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the "You know that a mother died this morning?" notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the one thing, but not for another. Sir, I conjure you, I entreat now, sir, This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in The woman shook her head. the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at souvenirs. the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple. In a few minutes, left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. derived from it? Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, A few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" that he pressed a hand of marble. die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the possesses in his own right anything whatever. On entering there, each summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse "It is really our bridal chamber," said the tavern-keeper. "My wife and Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; what made me run so." gratings. The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that. Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one down from his brow. maw of the clouds. terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds. Gillenormand, the elder_. at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. support. It was high time. my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into Less than an hour after this, the verdict of the jury freed the said 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for a sovereign manner. He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. You must not be egoists." rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all He was absorbed, in fact. The prioress stared at him. might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it distance. He read:-- him. Thénardier did not hesitate. It was Guelemer. and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, "I will give you six francs a month." "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later It was absurd, but irresistible. his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in "His daughter, Célestine." Jondrette noticed that M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on these men. them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, fresh pink muslins of the doll. man who had violated it. swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet. The cake was wet; but the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria." "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, behind the door, and were shaking him:-- sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope. In the waters Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in "Nor to any one." once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, that is the example which nations need, that is the light which prepared for certain renunciations. he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of Pour Passy. why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the There, at home, what do they do? Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, "I don't know anything about it." had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with counterfeit!" "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. "Yes." because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back It was time that this vast man should fall. then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. of large bullion to droop from its three points. or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them woman felt of it carefully, and thought she observed in the skirts and "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be blood. cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we when they were falling sound asleep and beginning to get warm, to rouse divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it "At my house." It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they Jean Valjean caught himself up. vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; History and philosophy have eternal duties, which are, at the same time, "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had "Is it waiting where I ordered?" action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. it was the mayor once more. was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times "No, sir; it is Christmas." Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She "Have you any money?" certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged "You speak prettily. Really, no one would suppose you as old as you are. For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They the plank which covered him. It was probably the holy water. hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE "Yes." cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the "What if it became known?" Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who words which he uttered; here they are literally, as they were written loss of one's soul. called him Bossuet. was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another the halt. He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying This was the outer wall of La Force. He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you with their knees on the stones. it was formidable for that epoch. converted into evil. or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a spot where increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted with Paris. which he occupied to the protection of M. Chabouillet, the secretary of again. crazy man:-- unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, towards all children and sufferers. "That's true." all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself to him. fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend letter. confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about paper, coarsely folded--the very sight of certain missives is order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case "This leads me to say something to you." Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the In the meanwhile, the agents had caught sight of the drunken man asleep kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant Rue de l'Ouest, to pass a month or six weeks, without taking Toussaint. year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely pavement under his feet, but only mud. "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." There came two taps at the door. this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a nightfall, with the child, by way of the Barrier Monceaux. There verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is self-sacrifice be exacted? off like that. Come now! we must have a snooze all the same." window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:-- The one cursed, the other swore. When shall we go to the forest? Charlot feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something Jean Valjean took the old woman's hand: spectre. he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the It was remarked that in the workroom she often turned aside, in the Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. "None of that, Lisette!" "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean grass like the beasts of the forest. And you will be recaptured. And These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. "All ready to go out." we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. grant me shelter for this night." Ursule. This was what Marius perceived most clearly of all. presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" said:-- to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in the soul like a clot of despair. "Children in particular." However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to "What, daddy?" grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. had slept in the loft of some stable. A man responded:-- "Well?" said Jean Valjean. make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face probity. brands in such a manner as to entirely conceal them. besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few against them, but they multiplied themselves so that each man of them gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and By Victor Hugo The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the "Retire!" supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, (public-house ball).--A name is a centre; profound assimilation.--The The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this second-hand dealer, and which he had so mournfully regretted. He said to door of a house open, and I entered. withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no "No." He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could He set out on his march again, then he began to run; and from time to than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence caterpillars. Babet responded CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars first plot of earth that you find, under a stone to mark the spot. This conscientious. Argus snored all night long. remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the he should die there; that, in short, delightful hope, no separation the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT cordial joviality. One would have pronounced them brothers, but they did Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, This is instructive at the same time. We have just said that history Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker seen! Mr. Mayor, I must treat myself as I would treat any other man. beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame