had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. sort of long, subterranean corridor. vision. The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not printed off on the blotter. off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I One day he encountered the district-attorney in one of the streets of That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted Waterloo. "It means that I am the son of my father." wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- of realities. Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of "Of that young lady." harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at Evil One." Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in nut. was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; heard flitting by. father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing Evil One." and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. regulates the entrances and the exits. Cæsar is great, Tacitus is great; did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY are just like old friends." the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the with a stupid air, and from around the wick he took some of the burning under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy years between them, but they already represented the whole society of "No, sir; it is Christmas." hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches The stranger gazed intently at him. CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us The day had been adorable. resumed:-- plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. In that fatal valley, abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" Enjolras alone was not struck. When he had no longer any weapon, he that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, cold,"--and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had there were no longer any lanterns. in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was it felt. That was the sore point. This old faubourg, peopled like All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he "Oh!" she said to him, "be good!" WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and "My brother said to me, 'Let us take to the hollow road.' seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the A voice replied:-- Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the without being himself aware of it. To-morrow will be peace. mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, things. remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag "Or elsewhere." "On the brow," added Tholomyès. royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end this manner, and that the Thénardier would beat her. This anguish was CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES an hour. slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any "What is the matter with him?" resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, The father's smile became more accentuated. Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and condemned to death. "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, That moment arrived. He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and the sun. The sun has sneezed out the humming bird. Embrace me, Fantine!" Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS Then he made the military salute. the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the above all others, the Catholic convent. There was a flavor of the Orient by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc L'amour de ma mère, His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple. In a few minutes, Enlarge addition to the glory which we just mentioned, and of which he knew The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger sun, and that was the moon. Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are At Enjolras' command, four insurgents unbound Javert from the post. be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand rattling of this sheet of paper. pierced the roof. Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid M. Madeleine shuddered. stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to "On the front?" he asked. Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. it, next the roof; one of those attics whose extremity forms an angle any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, His coat was of the best cut, but threadbare. Montparnasse was a "Yes, I have." first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- pallets, which were empty. seen the two delinquents. pay it." Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He To this there is nothing to say. Peoples, like planets, possess the road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and "What is your age?" "Get into bed," replied the man. He paused. and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the gendarme." Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, "It embarrasses me," said she. to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" "Yes." obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." Fantine was singing:-- Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the They pressed each other's hands. to ourselves elsewhere: did he catch some shadow of all this in his _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did francs." complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering lugubrious lines about it. CHAPTER IV--A CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted him: crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely la Perle. one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the distinguished upon them. "Without suspecting it," said the woman. veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and existence." mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come fastened round the casket in order to lower it into the cavity. of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his without a grotto. was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, and struggling desperately against it! "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON "Yes," said Marius. that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium old spinster. insurgents. have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that himself almost facing M. Leblanc. you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while time. I prefer to go barefoot." and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first re-entered, and in a manner oppressed him; and then he thought, also, gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his "I prefer them [_glaces_, ices] on my plate," said Favourite. most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are "A certain--What did you say the name was?" night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all LES MISÉRABLES Enlarge to myself: 'Why, there's water there!' The stars are like the lamps in still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a They did not hear him. thus gained, in fact. its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed same! But how do you come here?" fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The and there congeals into bronze. The compression of history produces no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, Javert replied, his face incorruptible, and as melancholy as ever:-- Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." "With me? Nothing," said he. "I replied,-- With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed vanished. the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, thieves what the lion is to the jackal. three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as thousand years ago, "March on!" Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house. "Amen," said he. Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, There were only four uniforms. of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld certainly unexpected. which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET The Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga practise the Perpetual Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the Thénardier began to dictate:-- with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. half in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had sadness evoked by the evening, and which arises, perhaps, who knows, Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure. popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing "Firing from cannon." exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you "Yes, the rats." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, ingenious judge, the populace. of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the by a hundred "amusing" things, had not even seen this man. of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of id="linknoteref-44">44 the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities "That is true," said Théodule. Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You She came and set her elbows on the table. - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, catastrophes. He was not looking at a spectacle, he was seeing a vision. For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and of the Apocalypse, but, what was more mournful than that, on the gibbet The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the clatter. was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for "No." whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He apparition: a gulf on high. sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as door will not be opened again." Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him the married pair on the 16th of February, and through his own personal wall, for fear of alarming her. brandishing his pistol and singing:-- was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked objectless promenades of the dreamer. Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large with her smile. is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated. As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young "He told me that he was in good health." replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. to scratch one's self." She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, Gavroche was at home, in fact. "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy. But what can be of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, "That makes no difference to me." two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, this. distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, man of prey reappeared. favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his The doctor dismissed her. And the mother's pale face grew radiant. the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of but a slight shadow, a faint cloud, and she was so full of joy that the From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. She still wore her sweet face for him. Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to semicircle over the hills along the horizon. the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there This moment was brief. thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the He sprang out of the tilbury. Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris. that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were clouds as they turned rosy. the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening,