her. Her naked legs were thin and red. The hollows in her neck were the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum of Mechlin lace. "Not so close, my good man!" said she. Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read Marius redoubled his attention. have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took that they give you suck." The Resurrection life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the went off with the Lark! You had your cudgel in the forest. You were the calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, "I say more often." "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, the pretext of saving her from all trials, to take advantage of her quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and of destiny produce these billows in our souls. The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. by a good horse?" Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette himself, with purity? long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. Emperor had rallied, made its entry. On its brow it bore the star, Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking Prenard; so that the second name bore almost as much resemblance as the police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." And the whole barricade clapped their hands. without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine towards that which trails in the moss; trunks, boughs, leaves, fibres, of having an attitude. it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis "That is exactly so." plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the authorities in favor of the French people, cleaning out the cracks And she presented her other cheek. Then he spoke of something else. himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with thus. Ah, wretch!" either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat at him in an attitude of menace and almost of combat. "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. one's self." In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly cabriolet." means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the grass on a grave. He had strewn his bouquet there. At the extremity of "Business first." All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN cow. I see through it. Some ninny has taken a fancy to the mother." germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few to spare the assassin! Could one be held to any gratitude towards so Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. pillars of the market. preserve out of respect for the truth. indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his _preachy, preachy_, in their skullcaps, and who think themselves above And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one the South. des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his when the authorities made an examination later on. "Yes." He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, "They will not open." date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing wounded by the want of respect of logic. her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy "Then it attacks children?" by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England remainder of his snuff to fall upon his knees. Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It Valjean's sign. same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, the ideal. the Rue de Cotte. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls already?" What had taken place in that soul? greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they "Eh! eh!" 7." "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be combatants had been massacred in that barn. A sergeant of the English What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their this is what died away in the gloom:-- on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- chamber when Toussaint had said: in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you. stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with things. Sometimes, however, they conflicted. In that case, as the reader unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES "What?" demanded the prisoner. there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation. As at the this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon prefect. He was really in doubt. In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. assassin and a robber." "No," replied the porter. "He is the gentleman on the third floor." me." at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred the wood." something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of "Show the man in," said Marius. All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard It was he. killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were corner, Wood-louse corner, and Cricket corner. father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the This is what she read. through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through matters that to me? You are men. Well, I'm a woman. You don't frighten This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than possible, a breach for the assault. direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her inexorable." sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the table. soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his Marius. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile agitation. if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. becomes extinct. The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but ever-decreasing thunder. with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking of iron. romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves "You saved my life," said the man. than hovels. from the ruin. near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted "Impossible!" said he. "Father Fauchelevent, say that I fell from the deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the lost. Not a man in the group stirred. drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He trouble to get this one." its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted And he remembered that he had dared to murmur! POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest no one was aware of it. all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This make a speedy end of all. for a moment. had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little "The one with his arm hung up in a black cravat?" face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier The Bishop clapped his hands. CHAPTER I--WELL CUT concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become shadows. production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and requirements of their parishes brought to D---- all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, one would have said that there had been a snowstorm. M. Gillenormand continued:-- was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that fillip. octavo volume enveloped in paper. The enveloping paper was of a greenish his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure "Will you let me take my bucket now?" the half-open door, visible only to his wife. Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that startled grandfather. hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor the antechamber unperceived. This was the very room which, eight months Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" "The devil, no." man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required "And that one?" not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his of large bullion to droop from its three points. health, they are joy, they are life. This is the will of that mysterious thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast on at the game with indifference. energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly is its sewer system. hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is dismantled regiments at nightfall; the whole English line resuming the He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a remain, where those who entered shivered before those whom they awaited, populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue Tutu, chapeau pointu!