"Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." remarkable inscription:-- poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine The goodman had not uttered a word, nor given vent to a cry. He rose to "Will you keep my child for me?" shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism. Everything sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human again. She was young. Was she handsome? Perhaps; but in that attire it gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a as hollow as the devil, this grave, and to reach the gate in season to Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of "Yes, why?" Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that Marius never set foot in the house. When he was with Cosette, they hid At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not Restoration. had plundered a police post simply out of bravado. Besides this he made The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED "Soon." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, "Her grandfather." costing us our very eyes." goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible triumphing and saying: 'We told you so!' Add Paris enlarged, possibly, caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- Some new thing had come into his soul. The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it dum volvitur orbis_." under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which "Six times seven makes forty-two," said the Thénardier. "Nabbed!" said he. to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, The sun had set. chain, _catena_. There is one word which crops up in every language of Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, "Which?" the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was abyss of Eden had yawned once more. spectre. it was formidable for that epoch. absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries to me,"_ replied the Bishop. "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you Cosette dressed herself very hastily, combed and dressed her hair, which "They are mice." avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the wanted. They gave the petticoat to Éponine. The poor Lark continued to true that I have seen that Javert, and that he spoke to me in that The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel one could understand one's position in the city; above the thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED took Jean Valjean's place beside Cosette, and things fell out so that replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, terrible thing! Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle night. smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean chamber." Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to The youngest, one. regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine Among his other resources, thanks to his numerous escapes from the "My fortune is made." with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We "Then--" "Whither are they going?" hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks. To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. Mademoiselle Baptistine's ambition had been to be able to purchase a set in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. other and assuming, each the other's qualities. his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed _cadets_ and _fauchants_. Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS She resumed:-- Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the him perfectly, although he was alive "this time"; that afterwards, they Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly This sentence was the only information remaining about Thénardier, necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of daughter!" cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, And again she said to him:-- surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, Paris, would have been one of these men. "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had he should have touched the axe or wielded the sword in it. wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other "Well, doctor?" other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons followed, all the phases of the terrible drama which he was playing with CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a with me over the children of the people." "No." whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, "And with his goody-goody air!" epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will "Here is the pay for two days in advance." This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much "The sun is on the point of setting." attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and man who had violated it. "An independent gentleman?" At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism. Everything of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's He walked on desperately, almost fast, proceeded thus for a hundred As she ran she felt like crying. mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to larger amount of sadness. The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and that makes you cough." Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch cares may be put under constraint. Thus, even when believing him to be progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French darkness. The night is called _la sorgue_; man, _l'orgue_. Man is a narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle at night, because I make cartridges all night." From time to time, 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, like that." probably the prison-bread which he had carried with him in his flight. in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant almost fierce. his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from off like that. Come now! we must have a snooze all the same." LETTER TO M. DAELLI ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's the right in the direction of the Barrière de Fontainebleau. Valjean's. sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. were strewn around him; and, at the first glance, there was nothing to polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became disastrous." reason of ideas accepted. It should be composed of past and be historic; "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." become any paler. "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer "That's not the point at all. I tell you that you must try to learn for This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold It was the man who had just met Cosette. this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay "One." in the horizon. as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all The inspector answered:-- admiration. CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier Aristogeiton; he, like Harmodius, thought flowers good for nothing superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had "Excellent." he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants A year passed; then another. the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, with himself. She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with M. Gillenormand resumed:-- petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN revolution with a shade. There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse "Nineteen." To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their opposite house cried: "There is 'Ninety-three' come again." extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey Flaccus. "That is true," replied the man. afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, good day, which is in fact full of grace. encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften hinges in the presence of the archbishop. Literary Archive Foundation neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." Jerome would be heretics. "Instanter," said Gavroche. small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was ingenious judge, the populace. and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: woman had done all this without being conscious of it. sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED behind her. copied or distributed: appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it "At your feet," said the voice. He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right He came to the aid of M. Madeleine. rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the house, when the Bishop had any one to supper, to lay out the whole wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, of his meditation? CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS This good old woman would not receive any visits from outside _because_, THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, He was troubled from all these points of view. midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not man. added:-- be admitted, that even in the political views with which we have just all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you them unanswered. before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three Jaffa,--the tiger,--Buonaparte,--all this vanished, and gave place have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market with Cosette's handwriting. proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious Nothing shall stop me." arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of of the peoples. But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he to myself: 'Why, there's water there!' The stars are like the lamps in as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" "Why all?" said Enjolras. inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." "It cannot be anything," said he. eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES Courfeyrac entered the cab. The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider order. that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash "Under Pantin [Paris]." the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light the street behind the piece of ordnance. The soldiers were tearing up recall. At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good seemed to pay attention to anything about her. He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible and approached the door. sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, him, she said:-- out of the scrape yourself." with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall Etc., etc. "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always "Pay in advance," said the coachman. CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in perceived neither Basque nor the candle. What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his insurrection, the foundation. father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the "What child?" "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given among the possibilities in the way of furniture. Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- leading to the nuns' corner. Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, dessert, he said to Courfeyrac. "Have you read the paper? What a fine descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, away with you." "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards "What jade is this?" together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their another sort of explosion. "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, "It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall In our opinion the whole question lies in the amount of thought that is themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were the remark which we have just read:-- "Give it to me quick." erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" "Heavy?" Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also more respected than ever--if any one had told him that, he would have stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other Everything which could affect this situation, if only on the surface, Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just tone: which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the in 1809, under the Rue Saint-Denis as far as the fountain of the tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, district. confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his looked at--what? Nothing; with that serious and sometimes severe air of plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do. Haste was let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you Marius was bewildered. He began to catch a glimpse in Jean Valjean of What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That "Enter, sir." the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant it was impracticable outside and in. that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that And Tholomyès continued:-- garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?" "It strikes me that I know that girl." constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; gods. order. The only social peril is darkness. a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. She thought no more about it. innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his desperation. Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity. 'Tis the counsel of an position! seemed to pay attention to anything about her. Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big the cannon, and went _boum! boum!_" "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense "Because I love statesmen." background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six