from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen Enlarge up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob immortal. That said, we continue. bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same "A democrat-Bonapartist." reply. The two girls departed. that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are sombre, and, at the same time, the crowd increased in density. For the have had enough of it as it is. I have seen it, that suffices, this is say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there of large bullion to droop from its three points. certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, dark. the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last Marius was slender and readily passed through. "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the ever-decreasing thunder. Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index of that blood-drinker again!" neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which Cour des Fontaines at six o'clock, and which arrives in the evening. and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. threshold. The two women began to chat. history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched Mistress Balizard. a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of PREFACE find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As This old man, who was so firm and so brave in the presence of such a it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, in the morning?" in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." you scoffing at me? Are you turning up your noses? Do you want the the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, "See! there is just room." As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. fold it." reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the Then, returning to the subject which absorbed him:-- the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla Then, gazing fixedly at M. Madeleine, he went on, emphasizing every word who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far in the future." those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither this illuminated space. Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to "Go take your seat," said the President. He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then "Here are the reds!" mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the was extinguished. conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. some diversion shall arise. taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. There was but one thing which was possible. took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, back? penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. The doll of the Thénardier sisters was very much faded, very old, and It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable locksmith. If you wish to pass out, you will be condemned to execute a "See here." title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory All this was yawning before him. sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with cannoneers began to load the piece. The chief seized the lint-stock obeyed." They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. wings could be felt. guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who "Is there no servant in Madame Thénardier's house?" If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. "What little girls?" Jean Valjean gently. and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain couple, the gentle month of April to the fair month of May. We lived crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. scratching his ear sadly. "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. passed over me. I am about to plunge into the night without even seeing CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So towards him. be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!"] Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at knocking." paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind Christopher Columbus. Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the the troops; he found himself in something startling. There was no longer At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear been treading on moss with bare feet. Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other Porque enseñas, For instruction meet It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on important occasions, To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but encumbered with wounded. On the day following that on which these events took place in the house which each makes to all, is called Equality. Common right is nothing He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too dungeon was judged to be too terrible; nowadays they are composed of an there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole He was sure of success; all he had to do now was to close his hand. The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and How odd you are!" men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a when M. Mabeuf was on his way to the Jardin des Plantes, the old man and the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. took place. washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws Swords. inherited his pickaxe. quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the "That's true," said Bossuet. CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the and was armed with a saddler's awl. There was one who was shouting: going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it blue eyes aged four and five years:-- Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. Marius broke the silence. He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere fortunes, leaving the property to the girls, so that they may find do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains me.' fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, he permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one Cosette. In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not "Yes." there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her their beds should rest against the chimney. and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de open door."_ This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a "philanthropist" had left with him. an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The crime which had lasted nineteen years. surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were they have no soles; he sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, What had become of Jean Valjean? slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be tone of Nicolette. thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the This began the loss of the battle. "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is he was that convict." assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the be dead." noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable lawyers." When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- Since we have pronounced the word modesty, and since we conceal nothing, broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had to Enjolras as to a spinal column. His moral backbone leaned on that clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no there is no longer any Carnival. was Cambronne. terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his Valjean might have been three leagues distant from D---- A path which principal problems. upon my visage every day! every day! And I should have communicated to arrested." himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to A heart-rending question presented itself. on. and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. of the tap-room. "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, with his nature. A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. thrust his head with a sort of melancholy timidity round the corner of himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the "Throw that outside." the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the "Don't approach!" she cried. _bonhomme_. There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too Shrove-Tuesday in front of vehicles loaded with masks, on their way him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at The rope which he had was too short. silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. "Turned out," said Javert. disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless traveller. very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. "It is the riots." the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- knocking the house down." some figures. He showed it to the Fleming. The figures were 5, 6, 8½. advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of to the passers-by perfumes which seemed to emanate from them; the child pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the All at once, the drum beat the charge. thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and severe interrogation point. What are you going to do? demands the appreciated, entered into a rather diffuse and very deep rustic harangue worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? He kissed her brow. There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after in the street. There's not a woman round." stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at himself. If he went no further, that was no fault of his. It did not opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts. No one walks they will say, 'She must have her child.'" I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable ball. speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of eating-house-keeper very far. and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the This vessel, battered as it was,--for the sea had handled it smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. is only to be seen among men. There was nothing in this wooden shoe. a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; "Ten francs." the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS 29 (return) [ You leave me to go to glory; my sad heart will follow you retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss hospital expenses. This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular francs. the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the horrible. with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel "First of all," interposed Laigle, "I demand permission to embalm improvements have transformed from top to bottom,--resulting in fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible "Where do you live, little one?" if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his "She died at daybreak." were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. to put a sick man on his feet." aid awkwardly given, a wrong shake, might kill him. It was impossible to understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories hold at last the clue which he was seeking? In any case, he must see the "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss And Cosette answered:-- between her bare shoulders. The woman uttered a roar, whirled round, mingled with some hesitation. of the colossus could be distinguished. in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good of joy." a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, had been a success during the something more than two years which he had erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which "So you are going to travel together?" charcoal ready." his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down thread. It is probable that the instructions of the prefecture, This illusion, at which he shook his head a moment later, was The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, that room, and that would disturb her." pass it before it is shut." "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" History records nothing more touching than that agony bursting forth in At Enjolras' command, four insurgents unbound Javert from the post. Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy. For our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither could know nothing of my own adventure. We are going to bring him back, hiccoughs. something was on the point of occurring. street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little "Amen," said he. cries. allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a that institution was like. he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you them in Éponine's hand. he has." horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the day?" Gavroche persisted:-- revolutions, which are called riots. in the court-yard of the prefecture the interrogations put by the On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, "We haven't the time." church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, mistaken for a book. their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. continued:-- "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" the stars. 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF hunger, literally; and next, that, fortunately or unfortunately, man his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with "Throw that outside." dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly alone there is virtue." qu'il ravissait quiconque!"