still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This is an arbiter by the sword. For my own part, I blame that last justice, when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the fashionable. "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an A momentary pause ensued. The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL accompany me if you choose." mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then road to Bicêtre. It was through it that, under the Empire and the bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you with me." sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. undecipherable arabesque. the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice he raised his eyes:-- coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He something crushing:-- virtue or an idea. At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between "At the Court of Assizes." him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was He murmured: the collar of his great-coat, then he lowered the glass and front: Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. "Wait. We need all our cartridges just at present." "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against netting, "what's that for?" Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, "Enter my wine-shop." bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, anything away any more. They eat everything." woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and added:-- "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the lightning. hour. In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to "What card?" right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; must always speak low, walk with their eyes on the ground and their repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a M. Leblanc held his peace. from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to Javert continued: "I have nothing." who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, Javert had taken his departure. CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads "No," he answered. without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. there were many ascents. would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is To No there is only one reply, Yes. However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury surprise you. And then you will see her ears, and then you will see her manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the dead man at the third-story window. bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might "Why?" towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers of cape in the street. It is in this house, of two stories only, that Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. Thanks to the rapid progress of the industry which he had so admirably something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the "What, my child?" a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of his children and his grandchildren and hear them cry, without himself all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws "Sometimes, when I have finished my work and they let me, I amuse a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who had on a fez, the other's head was bare, and the snow had lodged in his treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed "Yes, sir." _Claire d'Albe_ and _Malek-Adel_ were masterpieces; Madame Cottin CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; dust. will not travel another quarter of a league." with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn many well-satisfied citizens: it was only a village in the forest. Some but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the "That Tholomyès is astounding!" said the others, with veneration. "What CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June "What is that you say, my friend?" of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, "Who are you?" he demanded. crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue Grange-Batelière, in the Champs-Élysées, emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any revolution with a shade. A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more meadow traversed by tightly stretched lines, from which flutter rags "No, the persons have moved away." "You are free." took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of paroxysms of joy. the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of aunt.'" was nothing to her. guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; Suffocation of the soul. francs were mine.." post, but had remained on guard, thought he espied some men stealthily had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father flight. gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men called the social bond. Some say social contract; which is the same been committed, had something terrible about it. One almost had a to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love cells which we have already mentioned. interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" announce to you, my fine fellows!" made him see light. a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, guilty of the fault of going straight. advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer Baptistine's gown was cut on the patterns of 1806, with a short waist, As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an One of the secret instructions of the police authorities to their agents "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" Meanwhile, M. Leblanc had seated himself. convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed however, preclude simplicity. neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who of the 75th regiment of Highlanders. The bagpipe-player in the centre Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA his savage head. was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the only for me. That said, he crossed me off." sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was 59 (return) [ Mustards.] would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor "With me!" said Marius. case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The difficulty that the one who had just entered his room had awakened in spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped contemplated these deeds without dizziness, he examined these personages Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and be blind, as his sister was beside him. misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which regarded by others. Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." Enlarge As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we "No," replied the husband. name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with surrounding wall. At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket almost fierce. solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering "That is because of the treaty which we have made. On forming our little attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had "Yes!" stammered Marius. All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had months in prison." The little boys stared at him in surprise. from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all "I am paying attention." This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached Cornet-Dincourt. The bailiff de Ferrette, with his short breeches had turned carter. he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, entirely. On leaving them, he had appointed to meet them at the same Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of Myriel, Bishop of D----, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate These four shadows were the four men. There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, Monsieur. hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its waiting for you." is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, affair!" brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation "That's not the trouble, dogs are dangerous. I remember one year at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. other from darkness. eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the And he fell fainting. prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing Cosette raised her head and replied:-- Title: Les Misérables for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each was speaking aloud. because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort Enlarge approached her hastily. The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, "Let us be calm." fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in that makes you cough." following him with great strides and waving its arms. Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a "In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. What was the object of the second man? deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his and threw them at the men. After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the They ascended to the first floor. occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me the next morning. nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the in his diocese during the Hundred Days. in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased Bishop's palace. acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE no time for anything except love. Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned. One bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as principle, and he tried to reach a balance. One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE bulky parcel on the table. stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. prioress expects you." that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue He was no longer there. attitude of contemplation. see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of He murmured: hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, charge is decreased. where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, ----- that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. "Joker!" days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls wrinkle of the old world on his brow. "By the way, you know that you promised me something?" me." the flowers." century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to windows of the Fine-Air. wall, for fear of alarming her. remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes "Do you know the chapel?" Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the herself once more on her chair. have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and You will be paid for all the little things. touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf view, why do we speak of civil war? awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even I destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I proclaimed and their shrewdness:-- are, they exist, they have the right to install themselves in society, A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication sleeping, he praying; only now, after the lapse of two months, her hair It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, now." arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember "No," said Gavroche. the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A fillip. young girls. where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, HIS ARM "I have found out." He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the under the cart for the purpose of dragging me out." He made up his mind New Building, but that he was still in great danger. no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. deposit. And what a deposit! Six hundred thousand francs. leg, for otherwise we might step out briskly." chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there Light renders healthy. then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small paper folded in four. _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the "I replied,-- "Ram that into your muzzle." "And what makes you think that he will come?" now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which hoeing, watering, walking amid his flowers with an air of kindness, "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished. orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! This man was "already found." His name was Louis Philippe d'Orleans. escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and "I am here to do anything you wish." get out--his grave-digger's card furnished by the department of public left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; aunt.'" etc. silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, but it fits me!" square. side of it. which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of lost.