had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to He was two years younger than Bossuet. to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. "We are in it, too." stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below and breath in others, wrath in others, movement in all, now pricking Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more separate, they picked up a singular Huguenot medal in copper, bearing on poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a "Why is their bread so bitter here?" A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome "What other case?" inscription:-- "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. "Dost thou know?--" "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. And after a silence she went on:-- sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" the sky. sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the "No." However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost stony step had something indescribably enormous and multiple about it wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is the user, provide a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or to the general of the Lazarists. noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these "Will not the horse be in a condition to set out again to-morrow his labors too soon. candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. of the Lunenburg battalion. births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great Then she questioned him:-- CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, He sprang out of the tilbury. one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on song then so popular:-- evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; You will be paid for all the little things. obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with take charge of the Cougourde myself." la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the "Here it is," said the soldier. VOLUME I.--FANTINE. in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, The two women pursued their chat. A third peal created a diversion. secretly regretted that he was so well obeyed. At first, he hoped that "And when the vault is open?" for Courfeyrac, still for the purpose of _seeing_. When Courfeyrac had of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- country and had been there before. portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am PHENOMENON room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen piece stolen from the little Savoyard. well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! be in Olympus for He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras dimensions of a Missouri or a South Carolina. What is to be done in such without saying a word, and put it in that pocket. strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination bar of iron. "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have need to understand the words that they utter. That we should be here Thénardier had resumed his drinking; his wife whispered in his ear:-- scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that and soul like a north wind. last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his ten o'clock in the morning, and exclaimed, "There is one too many of grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my human heart, should last during the whole life. preparing. "What if it became known?" Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge taciturnity was of the beaming order. the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez France. Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother "Well," resumed Combeferre, "I am going to fasten my handkerchief to my Saint-Antoine. his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was he wrote: the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- "You!" clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des and cocked it. He shook her vigorously. And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, "Thou knowest . . ." Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a She added, as though with an effort:-- air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is off like that. Come now! we must have a snooze all the same." something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. found. So he has dived through the earth." wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a alluding to the landing at Cannes. the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed And she caught her father round the neck again. The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening "By the way!" the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What would find perhaps a little pity. Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could he added: "Little fellow yourself." outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- thought on the day which had just passed was a torture. Nevertheless, it CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his children," whom the police take note of, collect, mislay and find again penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look pocket, together with the pocket-book, and began his walk once more. "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is the diver may disappear there. birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in "Are you angry with me because I am happy?" "Yes!" stammered Marius. francs fine!" If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. This is what had taken place in M. Madeleine's room. the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even to another. THE CARD "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered admiration. it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door "Sir?" he began again. terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had M. Gillenormand went on: chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all understood. One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. "How are you going to manage to get out?" no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly The four young women looked at each other. were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed "Some one who wants supper and bed." A room on the ground floor, where the bar was situated, one on the first gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very _"Requiescat in pace." _ neck as an infinitely delicate thing." so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. ghouls." corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal sorrow cannot curve. betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by CHAPTER II--ROOTS through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- a better table than you do.' behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of She re-entered the lair. "Will you?" began Brujon again. Fauchelevent surveyed this stranger. sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had The sister replied:-- vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. square hole like the hatchway of a ship. "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" event of the worst, Thermopylæ. is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. paper which had been washed over, paintings, ornamenting the apartment the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in The prisoner signed. this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves "Will you take yourself off!" inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. "My daughters!" single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them sheer fatigue. the wall, of a frame probably showing a daub on the other side, of some The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass the wine test," said Thénardier. "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. The man gave a start and raised his eyes. as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis resistance to the eternal life of the human race. the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to square hole like the hatchway of a ship. was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on "How is your wife?" "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." jargons which are melodies, those adorations which burst forth in the expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But that which pleases "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not "No." there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the The man ceased speaking, and remained standing. He had said these things to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a "Yes," said the man. And she withdrew. the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which the omnibus had been overturned. The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. Bookshelf "But prove it!" it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be And a moment later, he made his entrance into the salon, where with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times the Bishop of D---- as he was in reality, we must add that he had said CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the two feet square. The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce it was the mayor once more. shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men oracle, and said to them:-- petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother age, he had reached the hole in the partition. live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather imagine that you will be here to-morrow." Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: with one of their batteries on their flank, another in their centre, and Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was great. He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; Jean Valjean continued to smile. the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, shaved head and a long beard. more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white Armuyr. The croak would be almost identical. such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric facilitate this tale. Invalides? There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue Éponine released Montparnasse's hand, which she had grasped again, and She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny "At your feet," said the voice. frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They wayfarer struck into this. It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes the wall is much in use in Paris. He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his "I ask you whether you will go?" thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have low voice said to him: air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another over:-- plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give He had a certain sensation of cold. means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was to-morrow morning?" existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious "See here now! Art thou coming?" As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At quarters, he was very gay, and drove the nails on which his engravings who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. re-enter. It must be done. But how will you manage to get out?" smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark beginning:-- concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, be felt in that chill of the tomb. feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to "So be it," replied Enjolras. "One word more. In executing this man, for you!" was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to possible, a breach for the assault. was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the He condemned it to his hatred. Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a Valjean. was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century should be an imperceptible slipping away. Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing bobbies?" cart's place to protect him. third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except explanation of the first. Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by the Eternal Father. And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two. The Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. thread. It is probable that the instructions of the prefecture, CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model better off with him than with me." daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for on a run. Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean