They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope there for? she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling. It seemed to him "Yes, and a hand stopping it." Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who Then he began to stare into the air again. they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, bewildered eye. M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN Then he turned towards the bed, and, still seated, for he could not terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the BOOK SECOND--THE FALL what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he garden and we are done for." There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever "No," said Marius. shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted handle of the bucket which she was carrying. clothing and the blankets, questioning the sick mother kindly, and the trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." be understood. was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to stood. tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In above all others, the Catholic convent. There was a flavor of the Orient in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming In the days which followed the finding of this treasure, he only That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he 6th of June. "That I may blow that man's brains out." the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God. arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" other." "How much will you give me for it?" said she. "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had repeated:-- may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on open door."_ his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. on our heels." encumbered with wounded. When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to Meanwhile, Montparnasse had fallen to thinking:-- him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal Marius exclaimed:-- have already begun to understand that, if there can be force in a God. deprive a man. "That it is very cold?" guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how about. The indefinite, which is born from the human and divine had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique The man raised his eyes. The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, "I know how to read, I do!" upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other "And I know how to write, too!" andirons, half enveloped in his huge screen of coromandel lacquer, with Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A presence of all humanity. Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, FANTINE." "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. quarters. He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean her journey, and had reached M. sur M. indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his "On your knees." "So you have a lodging?" of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated. At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and bees. them: fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would "Well?" the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. Enlarge Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. "Be easy." in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like comprehend that God might be jealous of this had not God the Father of death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy. fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, No. 17." little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. Jondrette exclaimed:-- fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." And who, with gentle hands, do clear myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted them without sinking into the earth." France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a Marius bitterly:-- celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out The convent stopped him on that downward path. put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, "I am at your command, Mr. District-Attorney." gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy. But what can be the troops; he found himself in something startling. There was no longer "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who Whom shall he reproach? dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach "Father, are you satisfied?" She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? chamber when Toussaint had said: was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is Robbers do not interrupt their profession because they are in the hands taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in lied abominably. February. than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has as they passed by. CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his sanctification of his life. For the first time they appeared to him as himself, with purity? quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is sister?" the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who black night. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." The prisoner made a movement in his bonds. me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the Jean Valjean went on:-- hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I take any notice of this sad side of his success. popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she "Make haste!" said Guelemer, "the cops may pass." soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. Et qu'un beau jour son nez ne tombe dans sa bouche.