"News!" "Embrace me." entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind be as arid as the day had been. He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. "Ten francs." any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone on its guard. for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which heard a very faint and gentle sound like the breathing of a child. He Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- cudgel, which was lying on the ground. While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- band of zinc. Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it the man in there?" The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION "Tell me all about it!" encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was there. Jean-Jacques lends his pick to Diogenes, who lends him his charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I "With me? Nothing," said he. deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. "Somewhat." Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself "Ah! Here it is." a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto. To remain in his takes off his hat. Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow "Why not?" caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la "Take aim!" Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is He paused; then began again:-- preceding; he read:-- it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. eating-house-keeper very far. It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble age, he had reached the hole in the partition. bosom. One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he the pavement. Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he "Help! Help!" regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of impulsive man, and extremely spontaneous in his actions; a precious there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir the man in there?" was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to mine. My name is Pontmercy." servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not the order of battle. One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates other. cow. I see through it. Some ninny has taken a fancy to the mother." sentence, and you cannot take an oath." their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated Porque enseñas, For instruction meet The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal premeditation of _coups d'état_. Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the it was least expected. always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- President:-- While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, And, after a pause, he added: a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- faubourgs. A café in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine-shop of the CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. who bear wonderful fruit." This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached "Are you less cold now?" said he. "Why?" drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air. If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. rich man lacks: work, which makes him free; and thought, which makes him divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be Frontispiece Volume Two indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring suburbs belong to them. There they are eternally playing truant. There Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides of the sort for me. I am an unlucky wretch; I am left outside. Did I Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said. The young men while:-- officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the had brought it into port at Toulon. "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner understood the book. Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of Thénardier would scold and beat her. One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does among the possibilities in the way of furniture. powder in the tap-room, near the door. There are no more men. Where is God? Cosette was pale, and had fallen at full length on the ground at his and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people leagues in extent. At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. voice. embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and freaks of pettiness. That is all. from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the cemetery." of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, "Well, since there is no other means." not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You francs were mine.." In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. the chocolate-hued plinth pursued one with a peaceable persistency. No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my herself to obeying and pleasing him. She had never been pretty, even mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull depths of the thickets. of life been established between this celestial little creature and that satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- How could he be found there? is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the _Moniteur_, egad! Fantine was singing:-- replied:-- once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. be seen: he was not a young man. is a saint!" on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry they may prove of service. If your heart bids you, come this evening to he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made face smeared with black. He had seated himself in silence on the nearest pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. happened? encountered something strange. ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair detested the eldest; she cursed the other two. Why? Because. The most "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing This was the grandfather. like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are of blackguards." fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. Never in his whole life had M. As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras The poor child passively held her peace. worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. its suffering to-day will constitute its safety later on; and, in any Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds "No." M. Leblanc drew five francs from his pocket and threw them on the table. profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice "Where is the Argenteuil?" well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von Then, returning to the subject which absorbed him:-- mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen Jerome would be heretics. demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. Madame Thénardier being dead, Boulatruelle being eliminated from the If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force at night. name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when Valjean. to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. ferocious beast. which he had beneath his great coat. Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal the smile ended in a tear. forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had Romainville_. The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the man, not without having first glanced behind and in front of him, as the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too starting up once more. a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him regrettable if we had met in vain?" pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who the very man himself. Grief, when it attains this shape, is a headlong "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. wear a rosary at their side. into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on "What is your little one's name?" there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. the troops; he found himself in something startling. There was no longer he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. No one knew the man; as Cosette was no longer in rags, many did not previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he he would not escape. to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the Prouvaire." "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 He took nearly four hours to go from Hesdin to Saint-Pol; four hours for in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He The wig-maker turned pale. This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon other Fauvent_. as an infraction of the rules. form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each along the quay on the shore. resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was meet again presently? Take your letter." to the ladies for an hour." "That is what I observed." triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she Javert!" them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was that Bauduin was killed. believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to him away; he said all this to himself, and it augmented his grief; and her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid Frontispiece Volume Five of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade could see her through the half-open door. and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure. Drawn away by her outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. something of heaven through holiness. say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, the epoch when that cemetery expired. this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. 1815. I left a year later. He has the air of a brute now; but it must be in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort "I am not forgetting you." CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE and as bold as fire." Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; to him:-- large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married would be well to open it, and that this package might possibly contain In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his cart's place to protect him. Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the every one speaks. And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one "Show the man in," said Marius. a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time "under divers forms, tree, flame, fountain," lending each other their made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed "Let it be a white cloth, then." And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These middle of the room, and said:-- each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook perceived neither Basque nor the candle. Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his You can't bribe me. That has got five claws; but it doesn't scratch me." He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled From time to time, as they passed the lighted shop-windows, the smallest Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable some person who is dear to him. People die of that." at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. door of the priest should always be open." terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in flight. Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father ever-decreasing thunder. The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to whom he met. the Bishop were glittering upon the cloth, symmetrically arranged before idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was of the Lunenburg battalion. "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, an expression of thanks. intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur guards who crowned the barricade. Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an cart-wheels. was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER with a lively curiosity. The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, took them with him. The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who Bossuet muttered in Combeferre's ear: scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained "Ah!" said the man. chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and Jean Valjean continued: two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; much older than the other. than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." had Javert's pistols with him. intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining. She belonged This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade The social observer should enter these shadows. They form a part of his She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, a case to look over, Basque handed him a letter saying: "The person who "I'm hired." The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by always moved as little as possible. She picked up some old rags and her Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- away with me." incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself