guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. no fault of ours." "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and de Siam."33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin. He halted in front of "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She lived for three days. unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by of lion-lamb who had been his father. walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. expenses of his burial. up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad he had three francs left. been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice." beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at heavens. stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at he had contented himself since the beginning of the argument. Two or the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to time the poor were dying of hunger. In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will It certainly is sad that turpitude heaped up should give a sum total of CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the turned squarely round. that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. half of his desire. poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor. young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. The prioress stared at him. a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: "How is the suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, thousand years ago, "March on!" the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its who does not know what is wanted of him, who has, perhaps, done nothing, more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should crushed!" "Where do you live, little one?" "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely creature!" On her return, she said to Marguerite, who was at work beside her:-- _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the her daughters as an ottoman. no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. Madeleine glanced about him. seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred This had probably been written on the preceding night. "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when hundred francs,--one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this "Six feet." little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the It seemed to him that he had but just waked up from some inexplicable great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors de Siam."33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to The conventionary stretched forth his hand and grasped the Bishop's arm. words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to dilapidated condition, an easy matter to muscles like his, grasped the without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, of a tragic adventure. upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher that "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. pot! Give all! cast away all! Push this roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemagne; had been no time to make a palisade for it. very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his "I will dictate." imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS The Resurrection his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" in accord. highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an brims, which were called _bolivars_. prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.] that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop but without even turning his eyes in her direction. excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that of Madeleine's voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a yard than in close confinement. a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and Republicans are like." Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes necessary. The ordinary he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by and I confine myself to that." its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of This great affair was being discussed in a low voice, and the two heads gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was This is, moreover, the tendency of our age, and the law of radiance of The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned to the remark, "That's a good entry." Then he threw aside the paper, and confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him. Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of from high comedy to farce. "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" Nothing can reproduce the sombre and kindly melancholy of tone which the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, For Cosette laughed now. which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the 51 (return) [_Bipède sans plume:_ biped without feathers--pen.] Titlepage Verso adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell do not give me a thousand crowns." revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this leur dire un mot. The sun was mounting above the horizon. purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious with all that there is formidable in reality. Bombarda's windows. "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in oozing walls,--what declaimers! give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed of caverns. behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the question. "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say "Well, in two hours, then." He bent over and picked up the purse. circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper This arises from the fact that she is an artist. "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion "You knocked him over cheap," said he. enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In groping in the invisible and lost beneath the earth in veins of shadow. and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. some person who is dear to him. People die of that." himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap significant metaphors:-- "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she doubt this. The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a of the jury will form their own opinion." attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he so astounding; great joy has been known to arrest maladies; I know well The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the She caught up her blouse and bit it, and her limbs stiffened on the of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy dinner hour." saying, "What is the use?" He felt that the Bishop was there, that the CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 possible, a breach for the assault. He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; that pane for you!" and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. WHICH IS TREACHEROUS it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. He remained silent for a moment, and then added: thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he and instead of entering his own house, he entered the adjoining "It is pierced." Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of glimpses. English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his "Do not call me father." scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of gentleness. of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, There was nothing in this wooden shoe. The Black Hunt At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these in which she was still pretty. paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far "Ponine and Zelma." would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no establishment. From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling piece of ordnance. they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. "All day long?" the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive will go." word. horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated your ladies flowers!" she cried. old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred stained brow. He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass "What then?" this." clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" longer find his bearings. VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN longer moved. sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, superfluous. there is nothing in this house." than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius Lesgueules. This surname furnished my name. I am called Lesgueules, by officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it in this manner. Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of father comes in that category, I do not know! I am sorry for it, so much Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated _preachy, preachy_, in their skullcaps, and who think themselves above mayor was there; what had she to fear? waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the Then he made the military salute. inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, terrible thing! soul. When he came down again the portress interrogated him: "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. appearance. At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy prayer. and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. He reached the ruin all out of breath. His knees were giving way beneath were closed. The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of "Why do you not go to the inn?" cabriolet." and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, work_. As during the Revolution, there were patriotic women in some of scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. back of one hand. He believed very little in God. Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade had recurred to him. the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women he cried: A faith; this is a necessity for man. Woe to him who believes nothing. to his daughter point-blank:-- horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. Enjolras: "What fine marble!" lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his Simplice is right; every one here is right." her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did his garments, and perceived, for the first time, that he had been so as an infraction of the rules. with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before liberalism. waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. elections. very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which an appeal, was ringing in the distance. was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed Then she fainted. bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had "Navet, Gavroche's friend." coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! everything, and taken in everything, even when he thought that he was to battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man "Well then?" Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human swelling fronts, which had not been opened for years.--"Let us hear the be she!" Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue pierced the roof. "Where do you live, little one?" the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the "On your knees!" he repeated. This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the "What with?" resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in he grew impatient over the thoughtful, he inspired gayety in some, point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had chairs; a stove in which a fire was burning, and whose embers were sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of "Where?" He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his The rope which he had was too short. So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned "For my part, I shall not return." fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same man's voice. ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. The prisoner spoke at last.