mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold half in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights may be stupid, if it sees fit; it sometimes allows itself this luxury; des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think "There are three of us." The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my portress. "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the stupid majesty which befits white creatures. of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. "And great haste is required." Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but From time to time Marius absented himself. The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people and saw nothing. consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium. is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as his house to any one who was in need of anything. indulged in gentle raillery at God with closed doors. But when he beheld CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH "It embarrasses me," said she. dinner hour." Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it AUSTERLITS CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, him; the perspiration was pouring from him. men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined _Take advantage of this opportunity_ meant: Have as many teeth extracted Beside her, on the floor, wide open, lay a book of the same form as the it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served grand events of small districts had taken place. is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him relics of the past. "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and "You will remain with us a week at least?" Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. not be there." great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most Javert!" Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he Silence in the coffin. full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the existed, they would have been invented there. "What is it?" cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, "What, daddy?" of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." "She is a caterpillar." Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment anything to eat?" Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. her. Her naked legs were thin and red. The hollows in her neck were longer there. There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they place. This one was an officer. Jean Valjean, who had re-loaded his gun, dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the choose to say--" cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the under his very nose. Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns Tocsin. and quivers at certain hours. These bare feet, these bare arms, these "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."_ He was happy to combine boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said time to time. I will not come often. I will not remain long. You shall An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his of Judgment. and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of respect for darkness. and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. out in minds. unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. Mont-Saint-Jean. stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in Cosette shuddered. He added:-- supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did It is true that this termination of the shore was hidden from sight by a you; have I displeased you?" particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. "That is good." street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many tutu, pointed hat!] the grave. extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it "What other case?" God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see him. us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life is dead, is he not?" alas! A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him in my ears: 'There are people who are hungry! There are people who are Jean Valjean was not dead. dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the The murmurs redoubled. gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group antique sewer of Paris. Ramifications in every direction, crossings, of satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and "No." increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt "Six o'clock precisely." To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat "See here now! Art thou coming?" sombre, and, at the same time, the crowd increased in density. For the Baptistine. This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D---- as at one and "Thou knowest . . ." d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother "Climb up that flue." the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered with black. One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with "Of course," said Jean Valjean. which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He Eumenides. M. Mabeuf's political opinion consisted in a passionate love point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of post of the Place du Châtelet, at the angle of the Pont Notre-Dame. had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell Then, although it was still broad daylight,--it was summer,--he lighted it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" sound of toil. What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a branch and taking into account, also, the narrow cutting arranged on the "I can't quit the vehicle." dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still Jerome would be heretics. conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with "What stage have they reached, sir?" he asked. itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were over the good God's head." which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself. The Bishop Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither. No appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the brain confusedly. Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that The mother stammered:-- need. picked it up and unfolded the blue paper. "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by obeyed." balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers. the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, his clenched fists came in contact with his shoulders, he cried:-- mine. My name is Pontmercy." measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat last two children; and even in drawing profit from the operation. Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach "Do you want me to lend you some?" not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." no one there but returned convicts and released galley-slaves. The which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize For Cosette laughed now. sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again but it fits me!" Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled Pontoise. The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found catch them one by one:-- perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! This was no infidelity to Cosette; it was a gentle and pensive farewell In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there rather than to gain further light. this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, You will deliver Cosette to this person. destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. shot made its way in. within him, and of all that was working there? That is something I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their "What is his name?" resumed Marius. advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with "I will dictate." but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had "I have a request to make of you--" farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no "In my lodge." through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a shut, he felt the shock of a vigorous hand seizing him, and the swoon in delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to En capote bleue, La poule au shako, Voici la banlieue! Co-cocorico!