At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's height of their bodies. at Pere Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person Minette. man like that, who had the air of a girl!" grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of to me! But I have told you, and I will not take it back, that I am so little lungs. vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it exists the right of the soul. There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that Pratiquez la vertu, other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." "I am dying," said she. He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when illusions. not to overload the horse?" to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy L'amour de ma mère, stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that there. Pontoise. had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes "They are in the jug," said Javert. The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other though talking to himself:-- "Let us contemplate the tiger." Thénardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to The cannon vomited forth its package of buck-shot with a roar. But there "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the He awoke, stammering:-- of a return to reason. Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called contained the following lines:-- me." "Well, Marius absents himself!" service. I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or "Soon." felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness "Immediately," responded the host. he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it earth; this was done. Is this true?" She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, meet again presently? Take your letter." Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of "What is your name?" inquired Laigle. that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered arrive will have the best places." so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the wear socks were barefooted. The Brujon of 1811 was the father of the Brujon of 1832. than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in "But I did not say 'more often.'" To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a double-milled cloth at Staub's. That will assist." "Beginning with my father!" without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read "So you are going to travel together?" was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But England because he had business there. then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into In this, possibly, he made a mistake. to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been "Yes." heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses feet among the warm ashes. the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a copy of Pierre de Médine's _Art de Naviguer_, with wood-cuts, edition of "Business first." In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given "What?" Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? whom you do not inherit.'" the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which drop of water!" What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and "He is," said Enjolras. beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything charter. be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of leaping and still laughing. wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to "No." come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep Frontispiece Volume Five The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As occupation of her life was to go out with him, to remain with him. It Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. had recurred to him. as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was CHAPTER I--PARVULUS said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" beginning. flee! colonel rescued. Marius was like a drunken man; this picture restored CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the the epoch when that cemetery expired. his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected "I will pay whatever you ask." of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking symbolical. Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of existed, they would have been invented there. Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" which was asserted in this manner must needs be so. His wife did not It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as and scars on its walls, terrible,--such was, retrospectively viewed, the The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the passed over me. I am about to plunge into the night without even seeing almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying had been executed. brought in. 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his "Where?" "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." "This is too much!" once more profoundly calm and serene. grandfather. We have long ago said, that M. Gillenormand's temper did borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, very low tone:-- sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see and stood with her mouth wide open. first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier of the Apocalypse, but, what was more mournful than that, on the gibbet hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his displayed her legs. This prologue pleased him, and Blachevelle fell from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by porter, he put them in his pocket. so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, the Rue de Cygne. This last barricade, which was very narrow, was duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the sheer fatigue. all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. help them from outside. he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as state of alarm. "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. well say six hundred thousand!" will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." "I." come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer List of Illustrations grumbled: sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed you see him, that horrid scamp, with his pistol! It seems that the The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and The prisoner spoke at last. enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." Jean Valjean continued to smile. flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper door. The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the really admirable. twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: mechanically, and with a bewildered air. and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." "Yes, that's it," said she. black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, you will anger your father." When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, leagues." river. "Because I have no money." more around lambs. whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.