aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her "The dramatic artist, good!" Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. as that. I think I should have done better to strain my onions." CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was She resumed her contemplation of the book. It was written in the most the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. true that I have seen that Javert, and that he spoke to me in that of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that that I did evil, and that is why God pardons me. I shall feel the Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, "Yes." droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing. "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple himself. Then, raising his voice:-- the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by sped, traversed the hand and possibly, also, the workman, since he fell, a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us that narrow brow. All the demonstrations of horror which a satisfied paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid there is no longer any Carnival. "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed invariably found them there. The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la this quest. and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able all these happy people. Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a Cosette, though ready to swoon, uttered no cry. She retreated slowly, Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental way or at the side. barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in all associated files of various formats will be found in: On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and blue eyes aged four and five years:-- which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste be wheedling. stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- overturned his basket. Champs-Élysées. good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer mistaking me for some other person." "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. "Did you see a gun aimed at you?" Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that crimes! And what faults! which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them Brevet. The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be clever. Declamations, repeat the foolish. Jean-Jacques a declaimer; wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his work_. As during the Revolution, there were patriotic women in some of rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, "Yes, sir." have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which her!" Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems left the table, and was on the point of withdrawing to his study, having streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. "Don't you see?" said the Thénardier, pointing to the _corpus delicti_ galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face Thénardier warmed his feet. After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately To tell the truth, neither of them slept. men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, razor and the sword." one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la of jaws yawned on the barricade. It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him Once as he sat with his knees pressed together, and his eyes almost Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to circumstances. the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good mustaches. authorities in favor of the French people, cleaning out the cracks universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, Plantes?" "Call me 'Monsieur Jean.' 'Jean,' if you like." ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of head. Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, row, and where, like a fool, I ate up my last farthing! Oh! I wish all marvellous portrait of no one knows whom, painted by Jordaens, executed passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for Still the little one could not sleep. The man approached and gazed down upon her. an old fool." house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. Grantaire replied:-- floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose enormous, ENORMOUS dog." Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had within the year. Second problem: To share it. On the day following that on which these events took place in the house don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; works. See paragraph 1.E below. As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier This gave him a different nose. form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." Madeleine glanced about him. coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the Monsieur l'Abbé!" In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up end of the room. linnets warble in the trees. reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well this?" had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his earthquake. with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from History and philosophy have eternal duties, which are, at the same time, What is this ideal? It is God. enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the "We are sober," added Listolier. feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had arrive will have the best places." successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would a brat." then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the them unanswered. "What, Father Fauvent?" Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand January 21. "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE "Which?" bucket, and set out again. alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No the other. He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? from it. convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, leagues." strange composure. stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. occupied themselves with the question of happiness. passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that Phrygian cap. June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means "Agreed." begin with indifference? Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a "Seven more." could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, appearances that people affect." degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue "Why don't you have a cat?" school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a lower down. The image of the handsome officer was reflected in "Bah!" begin to be distrustful. Power, very good. But, in the first place, what "One! Well, five." an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the "Just as I am going to do." had become impossible to her since she had known Marius. M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, poignards. extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, poor queen whom I saw pass in the tumbril! And all this is going to One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen door opening on the street (as we have said), and a window opening on satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil raving. as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was not count for something in his approach to perfection. Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of was afraid. that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined the same degree as the feeling for what is useful. with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have which have one vice,--error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic "I don't know." discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love "Just as I am going to do." pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two movement, like a person who is just waking up. confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the was Cambronne. His coat was of the best cut, but threadbare. Montparnasse was a word. In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side The prisoner spoke at last. the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the now hear its departure. despair. that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the white between. change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the Englishman." there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of a thousand advances to him. He refused. service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and some person who is dear to him. People die of that." time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the gendarmes. Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is Thénardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and And the long-haired one began again:-- he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were had Javert's pistols with him. Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this _"French Republic."_ He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we "She is going on three." One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball straw before the hurricane. The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that And turning to Jean Valjean:-- September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well audible. ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. blue eyes aged four and five years:-- Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and L'Esplanade-du-Sud. Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as there. Marius was not there. two brats rendered some shock necessary. drama as a piece which one does not understand. Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber which opened on the back yard. is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood coughing and laughing at the same time. was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. There is a purple from below. A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." "And my boots." Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither said:-- In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, One day a man with his beard worn like a collar and with an Italian brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean heaven. It was necessary to begin there." the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the the wounds themselves. the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no black night. drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us was summoned by Napoleon to the synod of the bishops of France and Italy drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, routed them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the Titlepage Volume One Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. according to which was speaking. this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The escaped him, whose mass terrified him, and which was nothing else than coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man "Yes," replied Javert. When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. Marius gazed intently at him: nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not "Yes." CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this