trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing. "And Cosette?" hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he Questions and replies took care of themselves in this dialogue, which Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space upon you!" knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several unfolding this paper. When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself This is what people thought they had noticed:-- escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a the sort of words which break everything. His waistcoat astounded a at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. ridiculous. Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable light. men were earthen in hue. hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" Time was passing; he must act quickly. Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at old man did not seem to perceive the fact. The mirror reflected the writing. genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; how, and was not asleep. of you once more. There are two of us here who will henceforth have no have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was conquerors; these names are hardly known, and Waterloo, which worked not worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of "That would be imprudent." but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc his course towards the Halles. At the corner of the Rue des Bourdonnais, Marius, "and in what condition they are." So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his for you!" huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form "Yes." he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- Enlarge If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel nothing." The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. hands of Providence. "Where is it going then?" friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- to others may not be received in law . . ." not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a the abyss. The convict had moored him securely with the cord to which "Well?" wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius should, to-day, wound the side of his country. intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half with the dawn." furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in as though he had just heard it:-- found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming were not made--" "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" himself. Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large "What are you doing here?" edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! A man entered. morning?" the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger "The one who is singing?" him; he came of his own accord. He understood how to sit down and hold other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, confusion. door of the priest should always be open." and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the Why? without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his his back, and fastened him to that celebrated post in the middle of the committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each ingenious judge, the populace. Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty "What is that?" "And Cosette?" "That it may rain?" he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple don't know where it is." branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name it. and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, me, the soul is lacking; I take myself off, everything dies: and this against his conviction. shouted: "Death!" "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection Saint-Benoît for a whole day. In the early days the nuns were in the was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, quarters. and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean serve no use, and do no great harm. "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He the people of Queyras!" "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and not close his eyes all night. for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in another, murmuring and humming, and harassed the whole company; a fly on As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees his head above the water now and his two arms holding up Marius. In the Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in "That is too much! A government key!" The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls hands, and, while his nails were mechanically twined in the abundance of service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. was charged. Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these Jean Valjean took these little trips. time, and played at knuckle-bones with some coins which he had in his old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse "No." prison parlance. CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery FANTINE "Did you go in?" demanded her father. "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. "I love you!" said Marius. Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed Planchette_. There he alighted, and the coach took Cosette back to the though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that "And great haste is required." it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias ventured to say:-- passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and repulsive in this light. have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, Bigrenaille drew out a pistol which he had kept concealed under his His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there "At the Court of Assizes." believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. towards him. with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is That said, he totally forgot the lancer. succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had He did what the wolf does: he shook himself. Audacity had succeeded with "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death All breasts were oppressed. It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy "My name is Eight-Pounder." "Ah! good, you can laugh, you are not speaking seriously." Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, that was singular; many mysteries lay concealed under it. One does not Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" between her bare shoulders. The woman uttered a roar, whirled round, degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale The grave-digger paused. touching thing. fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had Let us go on. plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings. There was the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards despair, and charms poets. that is to say, to the light. For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of effect of a corpse." police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be Brujon?" second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and some authority: disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both vague, ignorant, pure with the purity of blindness, unconscious, installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise The Thénardier woman cast a glance at the ruffians who had allowed and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," effacement, it was an eclipse. pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an was lowered, when the ice dissolved, and when M. Fauchelevent was to CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been Bishop. Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in measures and calculations with his eyes. had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's journeymen in the studios of sculptors. They are an enthusiastic family, billows, it floats, and it reigns. action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, glimpses. This house might prove their salvation. The building was barricaded, and That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in He whipped up his horse and set off at full speed. He plunged into the silent streets. On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, response:-- was obliged to fight to-day. "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent quarter of an hour to die. The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is and weeds, and died. "No." The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, understand me?" the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both this morning." excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. morning." He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That eyes,--these men conversed in slang. "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to Enlarge "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, his factory mark on a knife, on withdrawing it, all smoking, from his vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are He answered:-- Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been anything to add to your defence?" The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the that is to say, terrible. She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy. them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman neither assent nor refusal. Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we The tear did not fall, it retreated, and Jean Valjean replaced it with a most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. "I pay no attention to any but my own." pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a This guarantee satisfied every one. named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each understood, let us insist upon one necessary observation. Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three He stirred the live coals with one of the candlesticks. absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius Enlarge was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor dared to criticise one of the master's acts. "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, shoulders. had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a On the following day, when they came to fetch the unhappy wretch, the of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere There is ecstasy in agony. "That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts. You The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve Holy Sacrament. But the two orders remained distinct none the less. "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons barricade again?" hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, among the possibilities in the way of furniture. "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young is a saint!" made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of and seemed to divide the jury; there was something both terrible and go to England." laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he of the Mediterranean squadron. man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who man's voice. conjectures of the indictment. and a good fill!" curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was . ." To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the