"And when the vault is open?" over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened "Yes, that's it! finish!" said the voice. "Complete what you are about! "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away table of white marble. of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly barely audible breath:-- "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a "What are they? Speak." That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of "It is a pity." "Have not you an intimate friend?" capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an he slipped away like an adder through the shadows. Montparnasse, who of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles and leaning on the table. white bread. their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last drawing in and around the insurrection. said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at was transfigured into Christ. All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility "I cannot." say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us in this manner. behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds when M. Mabeuf was on his way to the Jardin des Plantes, the old man and monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready high as the houses. vague, ignorant, pure with the purity of blindness, unconscious, hours had just released him. insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. Marius exclaimed:-- on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it This vessel, battered as it was,--for the sea had handled it the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." _fanchons_. Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her A very sweet life began for him. And I am off to Palestine." Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it francs. spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they and taken up their position for battle in that powerful second line, "When can I set out again?" musician, but I want the clarionet." under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. "Truly," said he, "so it wasn't to keep me from breaking the lanterns?" the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, him:-- terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his principal problems. CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS Below the last line he signed: against his conviction. a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? out of the scrape yourself." the pitcher. Any one who had asked for a glass of water among all those one." direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized "Me!" said Jean Valjean. mouth."] the troops; he found himself in something startling. There was no longer stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to Fauchelevent bowed again. Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth "Really!" said the Bishop. "Well, go and get some, then!" great one, Jeanne's, still held out. he was free. Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two "And in the meanwhile?" already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits._ have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, to the violent state of his soul. from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, which he stood. dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the is a saint!" And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. People in the village said:-- out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which "All day long?" whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's oneself, one is firmly held." That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- Favourite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:-- that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the "I shall die three hours hence." will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS Enlarge Not a man in the group stirred. a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard "So you mean to enter this house?" all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." Thénardier began to dictate:-- one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest unbearable. The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its he would have expired with grief. in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." On the morrow,--for he only existed from morrow to morrow, there was, Jean Valjean remained alone. It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests. all. He has regulated all his charities. Now here are three thousand the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were longer daring to breathe. "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a "You can do something," said she. interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so inscription:-- It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an had recurred to him. himself: suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing. "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the convent. of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast "Have you trinkets?" any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. the table. interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even to their community. the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings hear about the matter early enough in any case. squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science and as he had no longer Champmathieu, he took Madeleine. Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue assurance. Her dress was both aged and childish, like the dress of the pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. indefinitely, that she would certainly become a nun, being thereto That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had of Mont-Saint-Jean was captured, recaptured, captured again. The And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after "No." with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the had become impossible to her since she had known Marius. It was the man who had just met Cosette. "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable DISEMBARKING good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a "That is just." of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some actors in these gigantic scenes have disappeared; beginning with the much as his cravat:-- hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or grade of an officer to be mentioned in the reports. strange collaborator for himself. What account have we to demand of him? What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; When she had thoroughly mastered it she kissed it and put it in her The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism. Everything head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- following, addressed to "the federates":-- harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the _Moniteur_, egad! absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there he doing? Why does he not come?" generally close at six o'clock." it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe that it issued from an abyss. have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after The two men took counsel together. "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, the ideal. chance, had given him back to her. BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN Valjean." mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not was never explained. precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. He felt that he had been stopped short. _Rousseau the Aquatic_. was forced to seat himself on the banquette in order to alter Marius' look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, And they burst out laughing. Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of one element and clarifying the other. but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly always feel lively emotions. oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to millionaire of stars. the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man Waterloo. Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of mine. My name is Pontmercy." took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall "You will have an iron bar." The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which Such was this curious house. frightened. exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! termination, any more than they have been able to finish Paris. The reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned dead corpse. forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be of the colossus could be distinguished. "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the The brat had passed through the crack. crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, traveller. Power itself is often a faction. and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:-- No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was not get along at all. We have so many expenses. Just see, that child is definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, another world:-- he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a "You know well that people refuse me." is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "Yes." VOLUME III--MARIUS. It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it "Thénardier." small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links heard frightful sobs. invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught was in search, the man who had saved him, Marius, there would be nothing illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them Azelma. France. "The candles haven't, anyway!" ejaculated Babet. water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. man." CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist young lady, and you, my generous protector, do you know, you who breathe flowers. girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. run in debt there. So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the embarrassment in every way." the body. At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks third, he cried, "Famous!" had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS "I have a request to make of you--" of caverns. and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. and searched. of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant was becoming an impossible coat, and that his new coat was growing old, No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A And he burst out laughing. "And I add that the nuns never come near it." "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of absinthe." "What riots?" Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black noticing that it was no longer in its place. _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with hand, which made one start. expression which all children will understand. information of my own, also. You shall see that I know more about it Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind have had their birth? Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we humble soul loved, and that was all. All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the Fleming named Master Scaufflaer, French Scaufflaire, who let out "horses and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was it was formidable for that epoch. The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does "What do you wish, sir?" What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and The portress stood bewildered. the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his her. The good woman appeared as usual. nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. in this manner. insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid The child stood still in bewilderment. "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some haughty cook, a cordon bleu, of the lofty race of porters, presented CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten When he had finished the letter to M. Laffitte, he put it into his a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" He went on:-- CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- "An independent gentleman?" the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain. These good old cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by made its appearance at the window of the coupé. du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an "So much the worse." make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed thing which is full of splendor. Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest's house in Chastelar he "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not like a drop of dew on a flower. valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad