Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. "Monsieur Dorimon." Javert began again: had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: cook-shop was in a bad way. "Climb up that flue." epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than whatever he could. His sister worked also but what could she do with new-comers are treated. which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the "It was His Majesty's beast." the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I "Come along," said Courfeyrac. that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your evil-minded is black. way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he admitted." established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a uneasiness. air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to There is a point where depth is tantamount to burial, and where light looking at the dust on the chimney-piece, and I had a sort of idea come have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry "Go and fetch Cosette." Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the must enjoin to silence. extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them shock caused the cart and the orator to come to a dead halt. It was a hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously in science and peace. Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty amounts to nothing. destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." "writing to her." that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in "You were not at the school day before yesterday." "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of over to England. same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on the number. It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and five or six large sous. One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, name="linknoteref-20" id="linknoteref-20">20 well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he The grave-digger paused. "Or elsewhere." we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he was that much clean, at all events. night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel expression which all children will understand. These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. Polonceau, the Rue Droit-Mur, the Rue Petit-Picpus, and the unused lane, "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and delight. All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, tiger, and fled. "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On As she ran she felt like crying. forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the "Where do you come from?" harshly. The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. am!" direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon least. administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, ceasing to gaze at Cosette. "Why do you say _you_ to me?" would not quit your family to go and see a creature." sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the boulevard. fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; perfectly white!" long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where what you ask." miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of such an expression, is to be the conqueror! To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he "Come instantly--" seemed very pretty indeed to him. This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled It was our man and Cosette. him by the tail."64 angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution one." position near the sailor. It was high time; one minute more, and the ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three The servant-maid hastened to say in the nun's ear, "Say that he is busy "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus "On my way through town, aunt." adored each other, and beyond that there was nothing. Nothing else to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't came." "Anything. I'll black your boots." "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in committed the error of confining in the New Building the most injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a "Roses are pink and corn-flowers are blue, A cannon made its appearance. beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like "Two axes and a pole-axe." who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both of his day. galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a "How glad I am to see you! If you only knew how we missed you yesterday! the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them Nevertheless, he was going thither. everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the Bookcover As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" Courfeyrac distributed them with a smile. cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall "Me! me! me!" "You will remove your bell. It is not necessary that the sister at the evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and "Oh, yes, father." which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen to put a sick man on his feet." And after a pause he added:-- when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 him:-- affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. Courfeyrac said. The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only CHAPTER I costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the "Well?" Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each "We are sober," added Listolier. permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the The first problem contains the question of work. pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in bath. with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, in this manner. The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we the wine test," said Thénardier. was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's Verrerie, No. 16." departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. a case to look over, Basque handed him a letter saying: "The person who All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the all the hoops are visible." shaved head and a long beard. thrown something at his head. square. had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach This vessel, battered as it was,--for the sea had handled it the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed him: four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be again." Jean Valjean was now proceeding was not so narrow as the first. Jean to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little the Deaf-Mutes, the Val-de-Grâce, black, squat, fantastic, amusing, uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, But what a sheep! free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked to himself that this monster existed. a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long musician, but I want the clarionet." are using up our ammunition for nothing." love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an not look at you and never smiled at you. "Knock there." at the _Orion_. away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, rat_ in his hand. inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since further. popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 Malta. rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des Jean Valjean. to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." passed. hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had Jacquot!" Jacquot!" possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on francs. which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, be seen from the street. another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. preceding; he read:-- The Thénardier woman cast a glance at the ruffians who had allowed termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and night. large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. by his own hand on the wall of the sewer, during one of his attempts at place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." much is it?" child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no recalled. years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are "I say more often." The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be his name on the card." garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is they are." the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed past with the future. Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No the Maison-Brulée, in front of tool-maker Bernier's, groups whispered excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was barricade is taken." envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were practices of the convent. There was a certain young woman who entered The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse further advanced than at the beginning. and as bold as fire." It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of glittering in the sun on a neighboring roof. A fireman had placed his feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who ideas to some extent, did not consider himself beaten; there lingered in it may be, the utility which it contains. students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know What was to become of Marius? antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the "To see your father." And he added:-- The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- of engulfment. Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, in chambers where there is a corpse. Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. response:-- This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The behind the door, and were shaking him:-- reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, alley where Marius was. Marius closed his book, then opened it again, indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so haughty cook, a cordon bleu, of the lofty race of porters, presented They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period the garden. these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore holds, suicide or crime. And he added:-- Then he asked himself-- dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in And, with a bow, he said aloud: he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; prioress at nine years. ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, and brilliantly lighted up. people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, Who were these Thénardiers? He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself more." nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the Martin Verga. from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor a little later than 1830. The cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, called the The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis "Yes." man!" rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at and said:-- and was spying on his proceedings. letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of "I have been driven away everywhere." damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had conducted in a low tone:-- "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was grape-shot was a conflagration. "How old are you, little one?" "Is the team harnessed?" a farmer's wife named Marie-Claude; the Valjean children, habitually "Things." "Permission to adore each other!" a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the near the hearth. drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says it? He did not comprehend. fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay who still recall the most minute details. reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to daylight,--for they always worked together, and in this manner used only exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and Enlarge blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN