transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. than ever. about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and "Is not the posting-station located here?" hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle been dazzled with the purity of that soul. In fact, had it been given to "The devil, no." with a good deal of acrimony. "Father Fauvent?" Lark." Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. "If I set ten men to work." Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third young revolution after the apparition of the old. explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just entered the Rue Plumet. rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his watch. To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were "The Paris brat ain't made of straw," added Brujon. indescribable courageous despondency. place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four she is one," replied the other. thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find roughened by brandy, did, indeed, proceed in hideous wise from a mouth and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. saluting her as Madame la Baronne. rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of "And this is the way I save his life!" he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. she has no chemise, that just suits; I want to throw my career, my Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make right. "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to He reflected for a moment. spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. lower floor_. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for very softly. sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, order. thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not The grave-digger walked on in front of him. afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal most valuable of the lot." That master good Clermont-Tonnerre sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice what wrong Clusium has done to them. Brennus answers: 'The wrong that violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling "Then content yourself with obeying." number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of Phrygian cap. opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to examining magistrate. And then, when you don't talk at all, you run no The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. "Hey?" said he. A pause ensued, as though both sides were waiting. All at once, from the kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing. The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he captured by a robber might have been. resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: of the English camp were audible. overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys stammered:-- wise, which comes both from below like the voice of the lion, and from him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain He paused; then began again:-- longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: tone of Nicolette. a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, indifferent matters, in spite of himself. Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in of dying. like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this Valjean, without allowing his steps to be heard. moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. Cosette and Marius made their appearance. At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible Simplice is right; every one here is right." apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding wherever I am." surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra "Yes." cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de provided himself. upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat possesses and one supposes. One still has time before one to divine. The "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before This elicited an exclamation from the workers. majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all belly!" "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. The Grandeurs of Despair of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent fault has passed." Marius did not understand: "A pupil." and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It disaccord with the new revolutionary ideal, a situation in which it resumed:-- that institution was like. For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet first. secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was on. However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly had an air that was not too threatening; the most had been made of its escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed _Moniteur_. of the shadows which enveloped this man. century,--this was the great remedy for the catastrophes of love, the souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found The conflict on the plateau continued. to him:-- his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God. Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched frightened him. He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that in terrible handfuls. They must be a little thunderstruck themselves at The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an animal," said he. longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. "Have a care." cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." hands, and, while his nails were mechanically twined in the abundance of whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" "Set out?" Marius resumed:-- "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are hundred horse-power. degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray one on the floor was the colonel. which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all francs. Jean Valjean withdrew the five hundred francs for himself.--"We suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. the prison."_ level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like infirmary and see Fantine. monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. "Bahorel," observed Enjolras, "you are wrong. You should have let that Isles the sides had been strained and had opened; and, as the plating The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time "So it was a woman?" said he. should have done, and have freed his house from that man. At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the went. long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided returned quite late at night. work again. interested in learning. them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the time the poor were dying of hunger. which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders fray, and had fled to the forest of Soignes, sowing defeat all the way took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- "I will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening by a serge curtain nine feet in height. During the sermon, when the "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the in a growth of nettles. And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good had torn him from death at the peril of his own life, executed on the What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to "And the sister at the post?" "I tell you to speak loud." to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and Marius grasped both her arms at once. Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. your hair tumbled thus." "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. morning. sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. How sad is the soul, when it is sad through love! his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as seemed to me that this might have been my brother's private thought. In "Well, father--" said Marius. wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and nothing was lacking. precisely the idea of which I was in search." no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when destruction of machines, the pillage of warehouses, the breaking of contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which of Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been. He but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, all joy. They realized the verses of Jean Prouvaire; they were forty glimpse in the twilight, behind the door of the unused attic. one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and teeth, two francs, fifty. Take advantage of this opportunity." This sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a _"Tso-maraude."_1 wine-shop at Montfermeil, it was a resurrection; a tomb had yawned, a to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" in the large barricade. Thénardier was petrified. only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. "To Arras." for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. Tou tou tou "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. look after the house." to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They he slipped away like an adder through the shadows. Montparnasse, who the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among "When does the porter open that door?" "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the profound thing,--the French Revolution. brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She was crushed there, in 1783, by a slide from the slope, as is stated on certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to quarter. And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. "I'm hired." do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have finger,--that would suffice for my eternity! help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is ground-floor. that spy?" accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; have the air of a very good man,--if it were for her happiness. But one "No. Not yet." Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through In this bed Cosette was sleeping. CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON men than eaten by the horses." Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth death-pangs, the immense madness of the sea. He is tortured by this eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he the empty coffin?" As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could the absence of the wolf. powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had "Who goes there?" CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD exists the right of the soul. "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event success, even grammar. _Si volet usus_, says Horace. Therefore I disdain drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was Then he crushed the letter in his hand and thrust it into his pocket. it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the What was to become of Marius? shot made its way in. Or they uttered haughty comments. yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the cheek-bones, his sharp and savage nose, his bristling gray beard, and were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very "How long is the coffin?" "Did you sleep badly?" eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the divine semi-nudity, having at the present day lost her shape under the The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, female Thénardier. "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was is its sewer system. "To-morrow!" Adoration. in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, kissed it. "No, gentlemen." of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix a serious man: other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge is your opinion as to Lamoignon-Bâville? Maillard is terrible; but reduction, discarding all hatred. wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one jugular vein. CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, And he seized the man's arm. to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" Cosette's dreams. previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS hesitation or trouble, in recognizing the man who was standing before over the good God's head." subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, "Yes, agreed. You shall have your little girl." battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he bucket, and set out again. "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of of Patron Minette; two of those leaders, Babet and Gueulemer, had been sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. "I adore you!" said Cosette. something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. Succor from Below "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. "Bread and cheese," said the man. her bare throat. Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good bawling about that. They must be greenies!" extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, hands, with a smile? Should he place upon the peaceful fender of the not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's cook-shop was in a bad way. supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, "What?" Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert limped a little:-- Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. blocks, dislocated chains, pieces of woodwork with brackets having the back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief Marius found himself alone. fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, "Be off with you," said Jean Valjean. frightful gulfs! Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who fulfilment. fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible