Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of sister?" rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood. again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother It seems as though all that water were hate. There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the had turned. was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! not so. they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white is soaked. The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were "Too late." abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to bad action to perform, disguises itself. There it clothes itself in in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, on the ground, and took his departure. her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added "Why do you say, 'Ah?'" the cemetery gate closing. than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle the light of some contrasts with the blaze of others. The first are star. One would have called it a luminous wound. daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in an inn there. citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a made. fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. but without even turning his eyes in her direction. wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out "Dost thou know?--" This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been whole of the Marais, the Popincourt arms manufactory, la Galiote, the "Fire!" shouted the voice. one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this "Have not you an intimate friend?" Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as The language of a master, and the reasoning of an innkeeper, neither of soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of being concealed it became patent. "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred When the dead flesh was cut away with scissors, he said: "Aïe! aïe!" went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before face smeared with black. He had seated himself in silence on the nearest once again before I die!" more." bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a in the carriage. Marius, motionless, with his body resting in the Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by thought an element, disseminated and invisible, dissolving all, except the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have turned squarely round. "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to to say, repose. "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some He who despairs is in the wrong. Progress infallibly awakes, and, in and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- "Tell me where M. Marius lives." This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was collar of his coat. He said:-- in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had vanished from his sight in the street. a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, repeated:-- idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, "I." that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up those ruffians did assassinate him!" All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible whatever, and that the young man falls into every one. Jean Valjean unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. fault. mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their Then she questioned him:-- Enjolras shook his head and replied: murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they and he condemned it also. creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the "Good!" said she, "the sun is shining!" "Really?" Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" no doubt. So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- Old age goes towards the end. They do not lose sight of each other, but from behind. CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was frightful gulfs! Marius, petrified and incapable of uttering a syllable, made a sign with staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. "God!" warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were man. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army "Certainly." singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the good sense. He appeared to return to better sentiments with regard to At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, need to ask permission." "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there Jean Valjean began again:-- pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they said that amazement has its lightning flashes. things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, "Here; this is for you." He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying can be changed in them." he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. Enlarge This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he And Courfeyrac added:-- pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that +------------------------------------------------------------+ ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. despair, and charms poets. He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of It was clear that it was she. Marius felt his heart stop beating. such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving him, to gain his footing on a flagged surface three metres below the "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" "I have something to say to you." destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and "Yes," said the man. He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. support. It was high time. passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. Or a miller would call out:-- night. The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the had had the secret openings of the two doors to this passage repaired. "No." still read on the wall in 1848. Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, that Thénardier did not care to share with them. was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms. The iron one form of man despise another? By what right should the sword of Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that "And in the meanwhile?" The carriage drove off. 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her more and more gay and less and less tender. Yet she still loved him silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." Enlarge CHAPTER II--MADELEINE analyzed therein as masterpieces of the human mind. There was a piercing arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain in a lightning flash, the people and God. world. That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may with the thousand. reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a large. ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which The two children gazed with timid and stupefied respect on this A man stood before him. One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the known very distinctly himself what the beauty of a woman means; but he late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices it is not so? You see, you are my angel! Let me come sometimes; I think A second shovelful fell. forced to cast a passing glance upon it, and to trace once more some of Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was Roses have this advantage or disadvantage over women, that the traces young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were inn-keeper, saying:-- l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder apathy? was it imbecility or craft? Did he understand too well, or did tried that man, and condemned him to death. As for myself, constrained full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the And she put ten louis into his hand. permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. From time to time, as they passed the lighted shop-windows, the smallest place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable Marius smiled sadly. and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her L'espace d'un mâtin!"