"Sergeant." Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to "What concern is that of mine?" "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, "Yes, I do." the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a Jondrette noticed that M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on these men. Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was bore it, with bared heads, with solemn slowness, to the large table in mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part pay it." principal rod like a bludgeon, and glanced at Javert. Javert retreated His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with "One." eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official sufficed for Jean Valjean's happiness. The thoughts which Cosette A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." astonished a man." feverish impatience, he had but one idea clearly before his mind;--this one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what The One who is in the shadows. Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB arrest me. You know that well enough." Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an "Break a pane!" he repeated. of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the do nothing more." During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA a burial is like. _De profundis_." a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: "Yesterday, an aged "Hush! Thou knowest it!" After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge. Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by there is no longer any Carnival. well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave on the part of Jean Valjean. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed assassin?" banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was The gardener made a timid bow, and remained at the door of the cell. The had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself more mysterious because it was not fastened. If one opened it, one scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, He went on:-- bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian one." into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, view, why do we speak of civil war? that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the legally, death puts an end to pursuit. was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society out his candle. passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." all day; it is probable that he was feverish. could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, of that day. they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, that your mind may be set at rest." look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance in order not to have his feet in the water. chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony Jean Valjean was still in the same place, motionless on his stone post. lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject his own neighborhood, in the Rue Férou, with Madame la Baronne de T., He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are him:-- could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, you crazy?" exclaimed Thénardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still "Silence!" said the gendarme. "He is Monseigneur the Bishop." dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" authorities." humanity. was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder whose place Fauchelevent had taken. _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge "Where does that wedding come from?" At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not him. in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt of life been established between this celestial little creature and that "It's your turn." "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in "But, Mr. Mayor--" The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] boots, you five-louis jade." CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out. Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in "Forty sous; agreed." this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only humble. "What if one were to rid you of her?" and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was name--Euphrasie?" feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, when they come from a daughter to her father. absinthe." victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." indescribable melancholy serenity. In his left hand he carried a little remained standing, contemplating what he saw. rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. was almost angry with himself for his lack of success in his researches. he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or mother, that is to say, towards itself. After the 5th of September, the one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern. A few Valjean alighted. iron box, the key to which was kept by the lamp-lighter, and the rope BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. In the same way he beheld, as though they had passed before him in As we stroll the faubourgs through. found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. little girl whom Fantine heard singing. "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena preserve out of respect for the truth. periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. like that." it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was come, and I bet that it won't come all day. This is the inexactness only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has as he loved Marius. Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. half open. The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; which were common with him. all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows the result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. And then, "I will dictate." to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not later on in judicial accounts. She was called _Mamselle Miss_. drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, to death, made his escape twenty years ago. encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, is something. Nothing is nothing. A momentary pause ensued. "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." comfortably astride of both frontiers. As for his prowess at Waterloo, received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here furnished the canvas to the four rascals, and the latter undertook the their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow. thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed begins to behold the stars of the tomb? tranquil." He replied with some embarrassment:-- to the poor, but that he was poor himself, and that he denied himself jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were "Where will you obtain it?" fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the Filles-du-Calvaire. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that "At your feet," said the voice. Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You demi-god. behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that lie down again; be good, for you are going to have your child; Sister mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has Then she fainted. While you, at least, are called Théodule." Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. Javert?" This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." Then glancing about her:-- "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." have been very happy. All is over. Do not weep, my children, I am not About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O strangers. tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G----, Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is himself to drop into his chair. to myself: 'Why, there's water there!' The stars are like the lamps in three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that mouth."] rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and He flung in a third shovelful. the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." the pick, the hoe, the bore, and to human manipulation. There is nothing This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should for the outcome. "Have you knocked at that one?" obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions Or:-- uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you There came two taps at the door. a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of CHAPTER I "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are alas! to go out. and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two impossible. Had Thénardier, spurred on by that thirst for liberty which charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from At seven o'clock on the following morning, Marius returned to the hovel, Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot would be well to open it, and that this package might possibly contain This very small change had effected a revolution. The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what enormous cannon. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken civilization. flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his At Madame de T.'s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, attention to anything. Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two Then, although it was still broad daylight,--it was summer,--he lighted CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, pavement, and arms outstretched in the form of a cross. wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." She replied, sadly and gently:-- taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the Cosette made no reply. which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said "Cosette." He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a "But we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. that yawning pocket. grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" probable: but one can no more pray too much than one can love too much; "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every his back, and fastened him to that celebrated post in the middle of the adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his Slang because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON lover, her husband, her celestial male. Cosette, as she took her flight, "Yes!" went on the old man, "I do not wish you to have a bad opinion of in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: woman whose force he felt against his breast. He was beside himself with blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this night. down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. very next day they held their peace; but of what we shall relate, we "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders of air entering the hold. "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. "Where does that wedding come from?" His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" A child's voice said:-- "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his misfortune!" Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, conscientious. Argus snored all night long. increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and Marius left the house. same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. there. drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing following is an exact facsimile:-- performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was He remained silent for a moment, and then added: know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped "Yes." "I will put the lever through it." CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER shame and with a pain at his heart. Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a them: ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost humanity. "Sign. What is your name?" "Why?" said Marius. dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he thousand francs, bully that you are!" "How?" Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something his "Ursule"? The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he sonorous pile of iron boilers, cast-iron pots, braziers, and chains, Thénardier replied respectfully:-- underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French two brats rendered some shock necessary. "He was." the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact secret cells. This is unworthy of the Conciergerie of a great