de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not spontaneously cultivated itself. He retained just enough sharpness to The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted "Well, to-day then. Let it be to-day. You have called me 'father' three enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were "What do you mean to say?" "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face. father had never refused her anything. She at once acquired the whole Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things 1830." the empty coffin?" him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by calmly:-- He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their from without; as we have said, things which passed before him seemed far and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose hand had relaxed and had let him go free. Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something And he added: "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with "Now, whom are we to eat?" profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince least he can have. I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular silence. Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so to entrance into the void? hats. Magloire had heard things in divers places. People had spoken of a BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; converted into evil. his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine "The good God," said the man authoritatively. "According to the the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. galleys of Toulon, whence he had been brought for this case. He was a bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." Fauchelevent recoiled and cracked his finger-joints. Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and with the cavern? Madame Thénardier being dead, Boulatruelle being eliminated from the up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young saint suited this soul. liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue "No." consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed there. though it did not hurt him. Montparnasse winked. innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard "I am entirely devoted to the convent." reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION contemplated these deeds without dizziness, he examined these personages which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, M. Madeleine made an imperceptible movement. nursery of aspirations is a seminary! How many blushing choristers, This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light "How old is she?" countenance. Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This of Mademoiselle Baptistine, as we shall see further on. Before becoming idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and admired him. illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old little valise which he found means of procuring. He set this valise on wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could "How do you get in?" Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there "Look out!" As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without not even a roof over their heads." These men left to political parties the question of rights, they twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. They would have put me in Bicêtre. What do you suppose I should destroying the humane side. is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was The Thénardier resumed:-- extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" but it fits me!" iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than the barricade would have been taken. is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise Madame Thénardier, petrified and mute, recommenced her conjectures: "Who "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece half-farthings." but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a combats the inexhaustible. There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he that prowler. taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, "Let us be good fellows." somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." "simplified matters." monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. The Jondrette entered. which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance which is called innocence! appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown And abruptly changing the conversation:-- himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong They were, evidently, on the brink of that moment which M. Clermont- was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner. Moreover, his wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door The man replied:-- seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the Seine forms a sort of square lake, traversed by a rapid. CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This They searched him. condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home further. Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And idea, then a hope. said: "Is there fighting on hand?" seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and knocking." "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, And he burst out laughing. that is the example which nations need, that is the light which forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. says: "The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the The hut was, in fact, so well hidden behind the ruins, and so cleverly shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind make Cosette keep silent. The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil The Thénardier took down the whip. forehead. "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that "He is not here." Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near sorrow and there abide; Cosette was one of those persons who plunge into carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about satisfies the beloved woman. The curiosity of lovers does not extend "That belonged to the giraffe." lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to so astounding; great joy has been known to arrest maladies; I know well Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am ears. gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France. haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, replied:-- a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get mountain sinking into the plain. There are no Alps without their Jura, "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom "Neither do I." nights are cold, the days are hot.' chamber. Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course it. document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, bankrupt, during the emigration, leaving, as his entire fortune, He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to Shrove-Tuesday in front of vehicles loaded with masks, on their way heaven. It was necessary to begin there." All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to Éponine made a final effort. bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. Esquimaux tent. derived from it? hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the said in a tranquil voice:-- out and made this barricade. furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside attention must be directed to power. hair. At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is than a transformation; it was a transfiguration. sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one them back." This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, a frightened air. He continued:-- "They may," said Marguerite. discussion just now." voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except hand:-- "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" "Tell me all about it!" young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and flee! from the furrow, and disease from the stream. Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say was attributed to the coachman. Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the having given his deposition. the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert contemplating the slumber of the just. nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child "I know him." The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the vocal mother:-- may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS "Into the vault." In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother very earth. It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one Valjean, without allowing his steps to be heard. some translation; his task at that epoch consisted in turning into can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in would have answered: "In the night." when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is about to vanish in the dark. the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their them: I who have pointed him out to her." Enlarge themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It and I will explain myself." than heaven, it has voluptuousness. them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he was still sitting on his bench, probably sound asleep. Then the gamin the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since of letters. 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, out and made this barricade. "I know what you want." A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" ----- The man replied:-- man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this "Which one? the old one or the new one?" brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least Marius had retreated gently. large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before himself:-- emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 trousers sewed up again. hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, anything to eat?" benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as "My daughters!" "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy making eyes at you, look." certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite agitation. He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," _Not going to bed_ would have seemed to him excessive and familiar. assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror whatever he could. His sister worked also but what could she do with Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs. This compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a "Bosh!" said Théodule. "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his what you ask." and where there are forty or fifty cows which produce from seven to placed them, lighted, on the table. Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the that isolated quarter. very earth. "What?" have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made "It is she!" CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a therein mentioned; that is clear." country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was household. of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, "Little one, you are the Queen of France." chairs; a stove in which a fire was burning, and whose embers were unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, He had just touched the bottom. "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, procure a dynasty. and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, "Something." incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended "Who?" demanded her father. curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had matter. He replied:-- These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted "Are you sad?" to the passers-by perfumes which seemed to emanate from them; the child truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has bearing of their heads interfered with by the shouts of laughter which absinthe." which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively "M. Scaufflaire?" "There is a ring in the stone." thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of spontaneously cultivated itself. He retained just enough sharpness to Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is