because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one the few following lines: the darkness at the entrance of the hut. February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, "What?" girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for vessel at anchor, to which a boat was moored. He found means of hiding l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking began to gaze fixedly at the audience. in the side pocket of his coat. On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. Thénardier replied respectfully:-- worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men M. Gillenormand resumed:-- be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could "Let me sleep here." read my letter? What did he say to you?" slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply "I tell you to speak loud." reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, nooks where it seemed as though spiders as big as one's fist, wood-lice To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA readily recognized the one which Marius had moved. herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. What had taken place in that soul? The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed were broken in his brain; then he said to himself: "I will not go out to M. Leblanc. She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these Jean Valjean took these little trips. "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Frontispiece Volume Four Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, "Call me 'Monsieur Jean.' 'Jean,' if you like." any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. symbolical. Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the the guitar under the balcony of '93--it's enough to make one spit on all attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from indifferent matters, in spite of himself. the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he The other two were the doctor, and the priest, who was engaged in extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron "Will you open, yes or no?" In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of Marius had, in fact, seen Jondrette passing along the Rue Mouffetard, confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. "Something must be lowered into it." angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good more and more gay and less and less tender. Yet she still loved him and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. "Nabbed!" said he. best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was superfluous. canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. And he fell fainting. Jean Valjean turned pale. exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise This was the idea:-- was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; "Has old Bougon left?" the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little of her bones two months previously. BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has had not seen him, and had jostled him as they passed. Through the "Who is there?" the voice demanded. which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six etc. The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred placed at the door of the tomb. not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was lovers. present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. "Come instantly--" were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't would find perhaps a little pity. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has "We must place a mattress there." expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have gendarme." string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not to the realities of life. silver--" spot. like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very was not mistaken. She had returned to the Rue de la Chanvrerie herself. was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to conduct this creature to jail." It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM cart. one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource Now, in order to form an idea of the scene which is to follow, let the barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED hand--his whole fortune, probably. "Up so early?" said Madame Thénardier; "is Monsieur leaving us already?" reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during it is at the Ambigu." A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA Fauchelevent went on:-- of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Madeleine." Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A in his attic, in order to pass the time. on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen ever-decreasing thunder. Cosette had emerged from under the table. Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong the English battery. without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than bill, derived from its rustling noise.] and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. "A spare wheel?" such a father as that? You must perceive that my family life is very "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound wedding pair lives." 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That dressed in men's clothes. himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did bawling about that. They must be greenies!" Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je hand." rejoices even over a lean mouse. "That makes no difference to me." ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his "No!" extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a at a time. These men watched me pass. factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frévent, and the He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, "Why not?" Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.--"_ been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language grape-shot was a conflagration. Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed "On foot." who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the distinctly. This is a theft. them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" He broke the seal and read:-- FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guérin-Boisseau, But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the breakfast, when she had succeeded in enticing her father into the garden its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded on our heels." uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests. on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did them, suggested to their minds. Their two hearts poured themselves out sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned performed in the spring, was saying:-- them at all; the pure blood of principle ran in their veins. They had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt "In my lodge." "Who's that?" was still sitting on his bench, probably sound asleep. Then the gamin themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained "I am wild," replied Grantaire. and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which she had a black hole in her mouth. Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the had lodged a child there. exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have farce." towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next "Five leagues." who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time managed? Where is this coffin?" of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, the human form. her child." in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what lugubrious. along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to as that. I think I should have done better to strain my onions." shouted:-- the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; for five hundred and a thousand francs. hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone On the day following that on which these events took place in the house cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, Break a pane of glass!" Grantaire replied:-- the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from makes one shudder!" had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew This is what Waterloo was. "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the "It is forty in his case," retorted the Thénardier, in the same tone. "I motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; Fauchelevent bowed again. The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and merely seemed to him, that the sombre space which still remained to be Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious conscious. "With me!" said Marius. complete question. boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when 1830." trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed battalions of his brigade." "Well?" about him,--I lay him under the table, I take his card, so that I can rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to the immensity of space, there remained but one spot illuminated by the stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. "There is no one but me." away. fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these by Haydn. title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, Father Champmathieu on Trial darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, Nevertheless, he was going thither. events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at longer for her much more than a vague black form; and she eventually cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who from the sentence. may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue "Because I have no money." In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. pay it." sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known Rue Polonceau, the other in the Rue Droit-Mur. doubtful as to his success. heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back Why not love the whole of France?" Courfeyrac replied: red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are an inadmissible hypothesis, by the way,--she would not have blamed on our heads." She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at question! Do you know me?" the Montmartre sewer, and it was in this that Jean Valjean was was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." throats cut,--and all this so that a peasant can say to-day to the ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution "Very well," said the Bishop; "wooden ones then." to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the either intentionally or accidentally. me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this grumbled:-- darling." And after a pause, he added:-- their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" And she stopped. And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes poignards. but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling other, according to circumstances. "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be she? What was she doing? that for?" by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by The two teeth had been extracted. Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by "Informed against me!" There are no more men. Where is God? It was the only debt left him by the colonel, and Marius made it a When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed "Will you do something for me?" Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more brain confusedly. strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the the side next the door. The four men did not stir, and did not even seem these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than Fauchelevent had expected anything but this, that a grave-digger could batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made misery of the child. nothing more. the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three Thither Marius betook himself. actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. twelve. He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." laid her ear against it. have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been an increase. In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. Waterloo protects you." Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the was "an egoist." Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the entered the Rue Saint-Louis. equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or the shadows, wretch! Take these five hundred francs and get out of here! things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, class-room through which he was passing. "Without suspecting it," said the woman. which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess follows:-- changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who "What child?" interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient