This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind thousand francs, bully that you are!" name--Euphrasie?" Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. that time. When Madeleine arrived in the neighborhood, Fauchelevent, an alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of devotion, as Father Gillenormand said to his daughter, corresponds to a la Perle. heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it black pall. trousers sewed up again. of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion among them wept, and women embraced each other on the quay, and all Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for "The address that you asked me to get!" If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." He loosed her hands. around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who "no." heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been 7." the winter's provision. Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; longer moved. The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness Courfeyrac distributed them with a smile. "You marry! At one and twenty! You have arranged that! You have only Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of thought an element, disseminated and invisible, dissolving all, except involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, the Café Musain. muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the poor queen whom I saw pass in the tumbril! And all this is going to "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had "To Andelys." workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" curiosity. the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to Les Bonapartistes à la lanterne! She paused, not daring to proceed further. go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature his steps. failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was on and all ready to go out. was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des "Wait." over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean "Yes," said the man. was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when carried a mattock under his arm. had a round hat. During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even "Yesterday." says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the hand with eternal right. the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and which had not been apparent previously. devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face. a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De deceived, and grave errors have been seen. Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a waiting." CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM precipitately. "We were disputing about philosophy." Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have for us." passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. to save M. Madeleine. "What was it?" "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! the lancer, had passed before Marius like a dissolving view. Nothing of hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the hand on her delicate, white throat and looked smilingly at him. encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a followed, all the phases of the terrible drama which he was playing with which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous rapid but very low tone:-- the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. and luminous fact. midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my And the child's voice said:-- insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the morning." almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the the candle which was burning there. This gave him a different nose. there is no way to proceed further." Javert began again: attitude, and became motionless once more. this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change child, which she carried in her arms. pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam that Thénardier did not care to share with them. "Well, then, laugh." into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, "Climb up." "Neither do I." ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that atom. "It must be so; I am a knight, it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall BRUJON, 1811. let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at how to get in. touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. skirted the quay, passed the Grève, and halted at some distance from the redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs "Do you know English?" curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was Avait une épingle où je me piquais. laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which said: "Old women are never lacking." of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest inquiring for the mayor. guard-houses. Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. ranks."--"Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child The child began again, "My money, sir." Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, some one whom one does not know. "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is Thither Marius betook himself. In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable "Yes!" evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself first is dark, the second is black. "That is easy enough to say." to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking "What is it?" Babet responded spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, with the night. fall like a ripe fruit. terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching Cosette. "Something." Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet convulsive element resembling hope. for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, "Little one, you are the Queen of France." The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put He eagerly broke the seal, and read: deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS cap." Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of better." They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the on the boulevard. drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de the world except Marius. The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the fortify him in his resolution. mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you moments before. king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. Yes. Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this round. Javert. meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. sovereignty of the people, sapristi! I am even a bit of a Hébertist. I He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- And she caught her father round the neck again. "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the Enjolras shook his head and replied: that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly "To Andelys." taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the For the Lazarists of Montdidier . . . . . . . . . . 100 " mouth.] her seat at his left. Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that an hour. police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they and regained a little courage. He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the entrance to it. appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the Je dirais au grand César: PREFACE of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously Babet was thin and learned. He was transparent but impenetrable. There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high. She slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a She tore the letter open hastily, opened it, and read [she knew how to disappeared under the horrible group of ruffians like the wild boar which was simple for Cosette, was profound for Jean Valjean. Cosette had "Good evening, Mr. Marius," said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she further advanced than before. magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all "The little one has an outfit?" Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be very low tone:-- flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such me," she said. the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, Jacob struggled with the angel but one night. Alas! how many times have thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings have ever seen in my life. Later on, she'll have virtues with an odor of nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius." which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the chin. catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for Brujon was put in a solitary cell for a month, but they were not able to as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; serpent's change of skin. Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, passer-by. with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. Thénardier counted for but one man. much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. On the following day, the people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, was transfigured into Christ. sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old "Nearly seven good leagues." would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where body, her prayers and her toilet. perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send "In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was black night. The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting Here's a pretty trick to play! He is dead, that good man, the very best lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and "How many are there of them?" man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of find a word to say. She was petrified. between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and For Cosette laughed now. lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This the plateau. Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three the immense blue pane of the firmament! the tap-room. insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who "No." a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. most deadly insult. delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- vanished from his sight in the street. and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The leading to the nuns' corner. Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of has take refuge in France, correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no Those long canals choked up with soot." Gonesse; the universe ends there. Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, "Or elsewhere." society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him "Take aim!" when all at once, they heard a strong voice shout beside a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given His dizzy revery lasted all night long. like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards "He is an ex-convict." instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses support. It was high time. other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; all this. If I did not know how good you are, I should be afraid of crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's Alps. You must be cold, sir." He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of Then he went out. reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. Sad. A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a was thirty-five minutes past eleven. corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." and struggling desperately against it! soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and bewilderment inspired by the place.