duty . . .' That is politics, indeed it is. I will not have it. People of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT June, 1848, knew a great deal more about it than June, 1832. So the dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, a strange and bitter aftertaste. CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." Singular fact! people were, at one and the same time, in love with name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be "Nearly seven good leagues." visit, through a kindly instinct, telling himself that he must behave do nothing more." Cosette. coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house She was still trembling. "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on It was M. Mabeuf. And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long not the same thing as dividing it. a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that in his manner. They searched him. thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which "How do you feel?" antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues and sacrificing no one but himself. Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to crowd about it. other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of DISEMBARKING She murmured:-- "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest Tholomyès paused. and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the Let us continue. "No." in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris "Yes, it has," said Madame Thénardier. it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not La nuit on ne voit rien, is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched "What?" over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper. On this the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, the legitimate princes? They need not have cut off his head, if you equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or knots, and it had received a coral-like head, made from red wax: it was He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting for an affection is a conviction. His nature was thus constituted. There cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid latter had taken their departure. _Volaverunt_. "Never!" permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air "He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal!" He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as He caused her the same good and the same evil. billows of the invisible; he shouts. did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four you and to tell it to you. Thénard." complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us Mistress Balizard. a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you francs fine!" fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, young man like a sword. surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for "No, sir." seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his from Vincennes. listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full "Yes." without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons "Well?" said the mother. VOLUME III--MARIUS. Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. river, and on the inside, six feet above the level of the ground. Four all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. mistaking me for some other person." ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, had become impossible to her since she had known Marius. had, so to speak, two wings of iron. "I don't know anything about it." it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood 1.E.9. rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any grief. Fi!" to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting supremacy of the Emperor. Gauthier, Bishop of Châlons, held his own gendarmes, serious and with sword in fist. "You're the emperor of the fiends! I surrender." each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius "Welcome, citizen." prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the "Is buried," said Jean Valjean, smiling sadly. We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, within him, and of all that was working there? That is something filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. "A democrat-Bonapartist." "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the The four young women looked at each other. Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier Marius was slender and readily passed through. Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement. There was a "Yes." old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation "Certainly, sir." one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the must look out and not burn the house down." rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a On her side, Cosette languished. She suffered from the absence of Marius Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the you." passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the Suzon), who went mad. The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" "I am here to do anything you wish." some one whose name is All. "I am young and in love, I am old and I wish upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing upon you!" It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that the real form of this frightful public adventure. patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. Argot! Why, argot is horrible! It is the language of prisons, galleys, human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you of cape in the street. It is in this house, of two stories only, that would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes white. goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are shot." the pretext of saving her from all trials, to take advantage of her again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed abnegation. the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, "In my house? no," said he. increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a century,--this was the great remedy for the catastrophes of love, the measures and calculations with his eyes. table was singing hers. "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; From these two things combined, the public power without, individual been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale "That is true." was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into with her smile. "Sir, have pity on me." "You wish it?" huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew "And when shall you return?" matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to speak, the paper which one holds, one clutches it like a victim, one inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had further than six inches beyond it. There he encountered a barrier of "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de short, he found further passage barred in the direction of the Halles Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of "How long ago?" whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' something. He traversed a corridor and came upon a staircase. There he and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold found. So he has dived through the earth." "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. "Why?" people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet And Dahlia exclaimed:-- guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite this from her--she wept; she burst out sobbing. not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, throughout the immense mystery of stars. resources are lacking him to forest of Soignes. stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all precipitately. authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they Cosette's head. melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into limped a little:-- When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, heap of rubbish." And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; Jean Valjean took these little trips. Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned to have gone out. They are loaded. Each one carries two balls. You will from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. _boffete_, a box on the ear, which is derived from _bofeton; vantane_, middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid "So, you will go?" about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." asleep. paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. that Bauduin was killed. one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, you!" Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. "Retire!" activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They No. 17." of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days The beginning of the winter had been mild; there had been neither snow The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad was getting the upper hand. a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it Thénardier still held outspread. singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle thread. Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels again, I should have finished at midnight and have begun again at the parish of This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his "I will take her away." Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. converted into rags. same! But how do you come here?" hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural was never explained. as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would the Restoration. "Without suspecting it," said the woman. calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for the Marquise de R---- were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the flattered the other." began. Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which "I know." m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its there. Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature sooner have committed. obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried in broad daylight. have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the The Gorbeau Hovel ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking PATER NOSTER within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of combats the inexhaustible. pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on theirs." announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have Bombarda's windows. Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, including checks, online payments and credit card donations. To donate, about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- "Good devils even," said the Bishop. capable of that." "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like "It is midday," said Combeferre. "He answers well." evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, "Cosette." we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The "Oh! oh!" inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" sooner have committed. "Pardi!" cried the Thénardier, "it is yours. The gentleman has given it to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas M. Madeleine forced himself to smile. Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." Enlarge the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. trouble to get this one." the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice And this other poem:-- "How is that poor woman?" him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to Bahorel exclaimed:-- much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose and it was a long time before he recovered from it. probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in