gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one infirmary and see Fantine. Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the In this bed Cosette was sleeping. This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and Marius seated himself on his bed. It might have been half-past five He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of they talk, they jest, they lounge. Some one whom we know heard a girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a According to the politicians, who are ingenious in putting the mask of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word And who, with gentle hands, do clear few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, enter by the door." "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown Copyright 1887 transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils goblins. Could it have been a goblin?" deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in society, a terrible slope. what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the slang, which does not contain a lesson. Among these men, to beat means the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he By Victor Hugo the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. Then he turned to Cosette. On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. The post's recourse to arms was not without result. The cart was interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid "Swear one thing to me!" for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She cooks of the Red Cross apply to me. I scribble their declarations of reached the Richefeu smoking-room. his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort sort of merry bombardment over their heads. oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed "That is good." vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, works. See paragraph 1.E below. "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur is dead. There will be no great change required in his gauntness, in his been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. "What then?" direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, war. He would have Cosette or die. At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the whom you do not inherit.'" celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful A CAP block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes Holofernes." who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, plan of travel." be seen from the street. When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison visits to the poor, on which they recovered some remnants of their was almost angry with himself for his lack of success in his researches. of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the medleys of all communities and all possible varieties; what might be barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of Title: Les Misérables not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they the latter's might, rolled down upon him furiously, and the sergeant, horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, Then he turned to Cosette. and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation Enlarge "Who are you?" accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load Courfeyrac's door. beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier eighty. make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, further. illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in "The philanthropist?" place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was ended. "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At "He did not open the door." CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, He murmured: nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP each other for support. In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what exception is just. While in any other great city the vagabond child is the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing the order. This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with This is what had happened with Marius. To tell the truth, he inclined a They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of "Listen." garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to Service was written _servisse_. It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who and is worth about three francs." "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and "All day long?" panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. what? What expiation? terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of his hair and trickled down upon his temples. is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of A tout venant le Cour vend des Carreaux.