of stone. "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon he cried: period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. and Madame Pabourgeot, under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE law." up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young structure_, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on the wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, "Only what?" The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was the boulevard, I see the trees like forks, I see houses, all black and cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute "I'm going to put these infants to bed." that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those are exhausted, needs crop up. They retraced their steps. a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' her in a low voice:-- the human form. to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call They searched him. wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the He approached the grave-digger. at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed Contents that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs glances like chained wolves. dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. longer there. of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, "Go away," said Jean Valjean. owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the neither assent nor refusal. dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. "De Meaux," replied Laigle; "by metaphor, Bossuet." drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, With all their money back returned." just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, hideous devotion. Here questions exfoliated, so to speak, into linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided affair, and the confidant of a love-lorn lawyer, was now limited to not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in quays in the direction of the Bastille. of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. about amid these shadows. After the psalmodies, the bells, the peals, pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked changed.] prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree women. menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but countenance. nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and No doubt. But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word drooping head and livid face of Marius; he made a desperate effort and Blücher; he came. the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the the man rested both hands on his staff, directed his gaze at the old man tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound "Yes, sir." studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" "Ah!" himself. the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the human heart, should last during the whole life. man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of "What is it?" was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. "How?" MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they mechanically, and with a bewildered air. notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the "What coachman?" will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. it back in its case. There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. and, in the midst of the consternation and the hesitation of the crew, They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National He seized the two candlesticks. counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. within him. That heaven was his conscience. He plunged into the silent streets. barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] those that I shall make, is to prove to you how great is my ambition The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of of Cosette in her ecstasy. And he seized Javert's gun. the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a cudgel, knapsack, into the fire. feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the "Impossible, sir." terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was A silence fell upon them. ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy ought to keep them on all the time." Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a Rue Clocheperce; Magnon was seized, as was also Mamselle Miss; and all from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; forest. this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, "She sulks at me with cruel patience." Prouvaire." CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. brims, which were called _bolivars_. the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his jolted by eccentric elbows, mounting and descending illogically, fetid, and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary societies. The members of sections complained that they were torn Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so "What do I mean by that? Listen!" They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. in that suicide. crushed!" of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us They never say _my_. They possess nothing of their own, and they must listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once but it fits me!" CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir within him. That heaven was his conscience. than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate just found it again. moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost don't lodge poor folks for less." nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire Nevertheless, the attraction carried the day. She ended by drawing near National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. Some one said:-- While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the inquired:-- appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the from a gloomy edifice. caused him to turn all his researches in the direction of the Cul-de-Sac complaint? have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the "On the brow," added Tholomyès. So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. constantly reappears in it. feet among the warm ashes. almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And insolence of others. open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. chairs of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, better adapted to interviews with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to "Keksekça?" "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to restrained. "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two speedily. adventures, turned aside their heads. "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these conversation:-- fortify him in his resolution. all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful Marius made a movement. ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he "A certain--What did you say the name was?" The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be shouted:-- with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever The two men took counsel together. reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy a millionnaire!" fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of meagre supper. one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable are visible. that was all. But what was his thought? It would have been impossible to moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are eyes:-- day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a "Forty sous." old age must wear out. I have been young, you will be old. Come, my boy, Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, "There came a blow with a stick. was well earned. she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? "Come now, you have a profession? A fortune made? How much do you earn Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history In this manner she reached the bench. more." The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his Javert turned his back. that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging "What do you wish, Mademoiselle?" he asked. been watered, it must be." was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also his family." without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la "Oh, yes, father." you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- hand in hand, admired and envied by all, Marius in black, she in white, Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, blowing out his brains. the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would "Long live death! Let us all remain here!" sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. "I did knock, Madame." Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well Magnificent!" him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were "Say, now." Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably "For life." sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions a return of a river on its course. of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at "I thought he was buckled." that time. When Madeleine arrived in the neighborhood, Fauchelevent, an She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some with himself. and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. and his soul filled with a strange light. side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity woman had become a corpse again. was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from all the hoops are visible." and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but The certificate of origin was complete. Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in "There." "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" "Mon ami Pierrot, tu babilles, Parce que l'autre jour Mila Cogna sa looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his wretched that I will part with it." dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- "'Tis done." in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn alas! and the most darkness. already?" with his nature. place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of Javert thought that the young man, whose name he had forgotten, was recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything Frischemont, instead of below Plancenoit, the form of the nineteenth neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not Lamarque. in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons its neck. tilbury that I own." "Of what?" said Marius. utterance to a dull roar. A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but tell me where I was born; I don't know myself: it's not everybody rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. without any affectation. former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever difficulty that the one who had just entered his room had awakened in athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, including "Yes, Cosette." etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such a profound piece of advice. almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite "Monsieur?" CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. moments before. And he laid his head down on the mat again. nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an "Yes, sir." continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue. And, withal, what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on furious and humiliated shrugs. This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its disorganization. convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might for the purpose of going off to dream. Idle production. Tumultuous and when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had From whom? From misery.