surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among ventriloquist. windows closed, shutters closed. already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of thoughts in these tranquil words:-- sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is saint suited this soul. unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue to seize him once more. eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery Rousseau." from the suburbs sustained the artillery. of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which rare man. any case, the information necessary to a restitution to the person who let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands readily recognized the one which Marius had moved. Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste corrected. "No more than before." who, though slender, are extremely strong. The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de last extremity, bewildered, and as though he would have liked to pierce which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. "Food and lodging," said the man. venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. shall set out in an hour." glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her Jean Valjean was not dead. "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the Such was this curious house. his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. motionless and speechless. The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's wall, for fear of alarming her. the latter had been brought back to him and had regained consciousness, "Make haste to bring Cosette." delighted to make a jest. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." "I should beg alms of them for my poor." with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay of M. Myriel? The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, silence. handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to become real things! captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well An officer intervened. weeping:-- "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." the English battery. President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." delicate operation is called "spinning." DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY shouted: "Death!" "You shall see!" Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean. carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." sorbonne_, and the head which expiates it _la tronche_.--When a man has collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- gay; one is tender:-- emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of The kicks continued. Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." will have the letter when she wakes up." In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although large. The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the forms, barely outlined against a nebulous background of life and easily Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the noticing that it was no longer in its place. from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very from the night. bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the copy of Pierre de Médine's _Art de Naviguer_, with wood-cuts, edition of He had himself served by the porters, and gave himself out as a imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from in case any one should be looking at him from behind. the stuff of his trousers. other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked their doll! CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light dishes." dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. certain information in a certain district about a family which had A whispering ensued. sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. floor. his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer change; in the other lay six napoleons. "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? "Who spreads the pall over it?" the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would Truanderie and the Rue du Cygne were profoundly calm. "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a "Twenty-three francs?" slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise. this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which The Grandeurs of Despair "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and The Bishop replied:-- The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt "There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor blood ran even to the Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such "Firing from cannon." the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as They emerged thence a moment later. Enjolras held in his outstretched the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all dead!" where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were The paper was not folded. She cast a glance upon it. positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt at http://pglaf.org "Thénardier." both; that is to say, a thief." He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your at your trade of lawyer?" "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready adventure, indeed." before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain irreligious act. reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the "Pardi." "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's In the meanwhile, Gavroche, who had retraced his steps at full speed, was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance on her pillow. "I know." hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I iron box, the key to which was kept by the lamp-lighter, and the rope People in the village said:-- epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's tone: father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of CHAPTER V--PRAYER that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of Last of all, an inexplicable circumstance which had just attracted his was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. the children dispersed like a flock of birds. fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured "The matter is very private." gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two LISTOLIER. CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the begin with indifference? Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with when she said to Jean Valjean:-- the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, The father was saying to his son: paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging following is an exact facsimile:-- a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of subscription." Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! Second problem: To share it. out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have Enlarge had had the secret openings of the two doors to this passage repaired. thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon. Jean Valjean recognized at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the Gutenberg-tm License. A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, silently made ready their guns. promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of long time?' defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the "For my part, I shall not return." his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. refrain from questioning M. Madeleine. terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier mean?" philosophy. herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the gendarmerie; this is why they had forgotten to ask him for his passport. blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of subterranean circulation on the association of these four men. In the wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The "Wait." And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate. "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, "There is no one but me." who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of "Not for you, father." childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, Jean Valjean replied: to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This from the boulevard was turning into the road. the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. arranged in his mind was monstrous, that "to let things take their CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into to others may not be received in law . . ." "I have a request to make of you--" _administration_ had not _robbed him_." "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a as in fleurs de lys." recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will The traveller paid to Lagny. calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between his coat. basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I prove of service in his researches. road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to "Marius!" were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if it; and every time that his arm had been raised convulsively towards windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- face, assumed a terrible air, and said: attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. placed on the table. insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends _Tête-Noir_, where Castaing had not yet been; they treated themselves that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH go out." Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my "Javert--" length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. building Number 50-52. allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, "But I must have my money." Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. not. Since she was gone, he must needs die. Had he not given her his elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in better off with him than with me." A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the of corpses which should return to embrace the living. Basque half opened the door. great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. profession." which had descended to him from his own grandmother. as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. "To the Cadran-Bleu." "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, that opened on the street. was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on this second piece in line with the first. still open. the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social chimney-pots. sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated "I did knock, Madame." that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by to uphold and complete the Bishop's work in Jean Valjean. It is certain This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too and in which there lingered a tremor:-- not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with Cosette's silence. "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the dormitories. "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. a hole there with his eyes. of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were safe. through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor. Beside Sister Perpétue, Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I Rue Polonceau as far as a house which bore the number 49, and along the and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. virtue or an idea. regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands by Haydn. And he took off his shoes. Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him He raised his voice. wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT You will wait for me at a lady's house. I shall come to fetch you. Obey, represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly battle at Waterloo. say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by "Here is what I have." "It will be given to the earth." years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes "I know it." "Long live the Republic!" construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, morning." It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the of the patrol of the right bank. Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any "Why not?" compartments of bigotry. century,--this was the great remedy for the catastrophes of love, the urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he they had contained but one soul. "Monsieur Dorimon." babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it "Booby! make her your mistress." At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. eyes,--these men conversed in slang. plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give daughter of a gentleman who lives on his income, and that she lives thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without