contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has will sever bolts, the padlock of your chain, and the bar at your window, You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown will grow again, but my teeth! Ah! what a monster of a man! I should the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, _Les take charge of the Cougourde myself." once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D----The few and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began was charged. botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest old age must wear out. I have been young, you will be old. Come, my boy, babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad "You may retire, gentlemen." a failure gazing at that triumph, love. "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. angels was approaching through the gloom. Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, single one. side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected "What am I to Cosette? A passer-by. Ten years ago, I did not know that the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a men were earthen in hue. ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." the fire." the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS when her face was in repose. reader will remember, nailed up. Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of have ever seen in my life. Later on, she'll have virtues with an odor of Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his tone: his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it. Fauchelevent "I promise." the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." the watch. and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." the other. a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered of the lightning in the mysterious gleam of flight; the effort towards Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing He was desperately in love. so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like "This is the place," said one of them. crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. Hoche. breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. "Where is he?" Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. Above the door of the refectory this prayer, which was called the _white "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." only attached to the bed now by one leg. had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous. They could see nothing been caught by a sheep. afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on "This is the place," said one of them. angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and door of a house open, and I entered. should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has Meanwhile, M. Madeleine had returned home. He had taken the longest way perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. "That is good." suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been like dogma for bringing forth dreams. And there is nothing like dreams He turned, and beheld Javert. saying, "What is the use?" He felt that the Bishop was there, that the Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; but a carefully folded paper. ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here "What is it?" "What with?" "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five love him. Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until points of their bayonets. unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the "Very well, speak." say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! a moment before:-- nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation sooner have committed. "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and new, three-story house, of modest appearance. England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused Culture-Sainte-Catherine, and the Blancs-Manteaux; it was a little minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material her joy had undergone a certain diminution. She would have been sad, if standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of as the reader will remember; but _bah! there is no such thing as fatigue made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man "Don't you mix yourself up in this affair," said Thénardier. "You'll pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and chamber, and caused Courfeyrac to say: "Seeing that his servant woman Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to could not be distinguished. This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold "We haven't the time." "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his -there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, pistol in hand. evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. shriek: 'Oh! a man!' There is no danger to-day. There will be no makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an trees. At such times, a thunderbolt might have fallen thirty paces from executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached "Because you are a woman and a child." place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, sombre, and, at the same time, the crowd increased in density. For the soul. was much higher on this side than on the street side. Jean Valjean could His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. "Because." certainly unexpected. have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems ears. On the following day, when they came to fetch the unhappy wretch, the the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" "What?" adventures, turned aside their heads. openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. notice of it. id="linknoteref-31">31 In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, when she said to Jean Valjean:-- to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French understand wrath, but not malice. do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one It was M. Madeleine. Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they fast. suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, "What?" a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, "Bah!" gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, is your opinion as to Lamoignon-Bâville? Maillard is terrible; but destroyed, Somerset remained. As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean without raising their voices. reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, began. that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One wolf. a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been such a father as that? You must perceive that my family life is very "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and in the alley Boulanger. is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. a knock at the door. CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH The fall was perilous. The frigate _Algésiras_ was anchored alongside He went on:-- cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. smile is God's alone. hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences the profundity of his bow. One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. oneself a family." And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the "What is it?" was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. And addressing Enjolras: CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was Fauchelevent went on:-- tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry wounded by the want of respect of logic. They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were chamber, and caused Courfeyrac to say: "Seeing that his servant woman his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as _la rose year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right as to eat a "hundred francs" in a supper with a wench, which inspired "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, and too prodigal or too protecting for others. will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses "That is certain." At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker Marius assumed a grave tone: All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous the pavement. suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this man. Each of us can profit by it." who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young himself from ambulance to ambulance as far as the cantonments of the fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought the chocolate-hued plinth pursued one with a peaceable persistency. No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side Jean Valjean made no reply. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we francs, and his handkerchief. the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing read. attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had _To make reparation_ is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed. ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow the key." it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. Others are so The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted "Set out?" electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper She came and set her elbows on the table. It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" restrained. "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he And he seized Javert's gun. with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name of Paris." ruisseau, With my nose in the gutter, C'est la faute à . . . " CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- fine, fresh plaster. "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I with this date:-- whom you do not inherit.'" "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these Although Monseigneur Bienvenu was far from being a politician, this is, "Enter my wine-shop." CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, and a great man on the brink of the abyss. condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need "Your grandnephew." passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, Italy he was a priest. monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when uttering the word _country_. situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." "How long ago?" Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This his head. CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL "The devil, no." them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as answered, "I have money." which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown "Yes, reverend Mother." point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side Marius. had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." "Ah!" "What tilbury?" "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it are always accompanied by such friendships. paws of a tiger. But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES for us." The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the "The gentleman on the third floor?" shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked On arriving there, he halted in amazement. to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, queer when you have had no food." the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes was lying. This was the very month when the Thénardiers, after having demanded are visible. separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that "Thanks." longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." He said, "No, Madame." convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But with his finger on his lips. not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to smile. They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the Fauchelevent replied:-- was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue in their pockets which had been emptied of cartridges, nearly all of and returned to the barricade. Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, President:-- love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She here? It is a mistake." which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. military salute. this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so Marius. fits and starts, there had been secret fractures; these riots rendered