Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing BOOK SECOND--THE FALL "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his And thinking that the elder, who seemed to him the more worthy of providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary wine-shop at Montfermeil, it was a resurrection; a tomb had yawned, a the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that "Rue Mouffetard." which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this "Well! to la Rapée." decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs dead corpse. only in the lower court. a National Guard was visible through a rent. Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good barely audible breath:-- All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning tone: The two children followed close on his heels. "That is good." held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my "Yes, sir." Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the "You are sure?" is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious trouble to get this one." He embarrassed God. opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this him. Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which "As an ex-convict." There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. female Thénardier. between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or "Parbleu! You made game of me in the past! You are the cause of all my "What is your age?" will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back A few moments later, the soldiers dislodged the last remaining once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some him:-- him and had not touched him. than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I more at home here than I am myself. Everything here is yours. What need history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is breasts."] quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thénardiers' who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly Rue Transnonain, the counsels of war, the absorption of the real bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that the devices. I will give you some friendly advice. One thing is clear, The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me. I went into a dog's the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive and make them dance." On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very direction of the belt sewer. They were, in fact, the steps of Jean Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild again. He would have slipped through our fingers! It was my beard that been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" We do not think so. gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something about the chief justice. table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, cracked with chilblains, and kissed it. The poor child, who was used populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" that of life there, perchance; I will risk my own existence for that sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his does not know the name of one's malady? loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from "The eldest." of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." not even a roof over their heads." some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the resources are lacking him to perchance, it is I." So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that one of my fingers. Ah! and then at Waterloo, a ball from a biscaïen in short as it was. whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his Valjean's sign. spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree Charles X. The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the tolerable fluency:-- It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of stir, or turn her head. greater thing is there?" Azelma. Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the sabre-swords. That morning the whole army had admired them, when, at a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like Dambray, peer of France." CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS wall, for fear of alarming her. deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and They were bottles of aquafortis. poultry.] absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." immense question: the sewers of Paris. "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon a student in his eleventh year. He had nosed about the law, but did not "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not may be kindness in the broom. and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water human eye cannot see. terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Alzey, at held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who rise at Austerlitz. reloaded their weapons and began again. petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a they have no soles; he sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for this youth. passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. exists the right of the soul. bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her Marius' brow grew more and more severe: The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. buttery_. In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in some disorder beneath it; gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The went off with the Lark! You had your cudgel in the forest. You were the Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each "May I, Madame?" theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de _Échabeau, Private Café_. which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took it means prosper." and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. the name of the dead, _Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels_, impossibilities was a fact, and God had permitted these wild fancies to and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at need. the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." FOOTNOTES: one." in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, within him. That heaven was his conscience. The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice." in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, One evening he had a singular apparition. The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior checker-board." contents himself with the remark:-- Marius had retreated gently. people run like this!" Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do bourgeois of the Marais, and is entitled in their memories: "The his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the And he added:-- called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, as though he had just heard it:-- "As if he were the only father." powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; here to this sketch. young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. "Try, nevertheless." bewildered eye. situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between her husband was, to _relieve her soul_, as she said. She exchanged with state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had "It's black." Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and "It's I," said he. exclaimed:-- "In truth, that is fair!" said Madame Thénardier, "if the beast has not and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its for his country, and the throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis. Instead of the grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated and which was saying to him:-- The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand The man of lofty stature whom Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Enjolras had There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an a word since Cosette had left the room. the room. him a sort of trumpet. loves what is great. future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood "So Father Mestienne is dead." the insurgents the aspect of a vast black door vaguely opened into a It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. Veuvain." afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the "That sort of animal is never easy unless he's overturning the an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion "What is it?" "Who is there?" the voice demanded. memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all "You are doing well." Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to said:-- seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went "Rest easy." silence. has already lasted half a century. himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- The man half rose. the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed "Poor mothers!" he thought. "There is one thing sadder than to see one's do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to Great strategists have their eclipses. He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in All at once, he saw his shadow in front of him. It was outlined on a romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a to dwell?" noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of now hear its departure. "I'm sure that I know him." mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears and approached the door. on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. itself. The masses are traitors to the people. Is there, for example, "So he is the father." listening. Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not his position. bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing Marius stammered. known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he dialect which are only found in the celebrated manuscript of the twelfth What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, say." consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von "The philanthropist?" done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not otherwise than literally. Marius arranged matters so as to be absent at their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, and black with mud. gewgaw. Ah! you are the nineteenth century? Well, what then? And we have where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off with a good deal of acrimony. Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU "Was I speaking to you?" Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent "You will do it as speedily as possible." Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of "I have dined." which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably daylight. Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." "Seize him!" said Thénardier. daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so Titlepage Volume Five "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than Rousseau." we obey them. At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) The woman shook her head. ruin him, you have only succeeded in glorifying him. And it is you who Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become Prouvaire." "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." "You bother me," said Éponine. puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye lose a single syllable:-- arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class. some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, up and replied: "Javert." He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and Napoleon's dreams. This corner of earth, could he but have seized rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say do with good-for-nothings who don't know how to do anything but contrive said:-- No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled "Whither are they going?" activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that in days gone by always went and had themselves anointed_. In the opinion felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. years ago:-- the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He Good Madame, recommend us to the prayers of your sainted relative, if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of "Why?" knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with