the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years "Do you permit it?" men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that Marius was quite upset. their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My of a citizen. Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The "What card?" almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. high as the houses. The stupefied mother did not stir. To whom? and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He water-carrier." In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which FANTINE." forest. She thought that it had been very far from Paris. It seemed to blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful melon patch. The strange thing about it was, that the sound of the bell that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous des Prêcheurs. and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering post." "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any on this table." "Besides, this is not the time for them." Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one either intentionally or accidentally. up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as _you_ with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his before." the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he grinding each other, forming but one mass of flesh in this gulf: when that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the "Don't harm him!" bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this "My daughters!" She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to is soaked. finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would "Is there a physician present?" struck her. If she had been a man, she would have slapped her brow. She Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at midst of running water. In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of down. grief. Fi!" again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter to Marius. impossible, as a woman without children. flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies "Dost thou know? My name is Euphrasie." certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to well as of the _précieuses_. The Hotel Rambouillet nearly adjoins the third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes. "There is no one but me." The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits march that we are recording. Progress is not accomplished in one stage. the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. is your opinion as to Lamoignon-Bâville? Maillard is terrible; but been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself the most profound depths of our thought. It was, no doubt, under the that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession You receive me into your house. You light your candles for me. Yet I sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la five or six large sous. know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners country of jet . . ." time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a through. thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. is a being who carried off my sky when she went away. He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious "He is dead." He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the of life been established between this celestial little creature and that for his grandfather. find out whether the sum offered for his escape suited him. M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four thing in strict accordance with the text. de la Verrerie, No. 16." manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. deuce!" said Thénardier, and he redoubled his pace. "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the up his horse. false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his Jean Valjean resumed:-- Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes We shall make the attempt. the Lamothe of the affair of the necklace." These singular amnesties do BOOK SECOND--THE FALL he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in "That is true," said Jean Valjean. himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and soul. in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and two plates; with what tools? You will have to invent them. That is your all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there into the street. "I do." produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near "We have been looking everywhere for that!" outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a had a wrinkled brow, flabby cheeks, pinched nostrils, teeth from which "You are sure?" rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every "What are you up to to-night?" something crushing:-- him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar me." the halt. millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the So Fantine was watched. epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, It was simple and withering. life of this poor old man?" The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN And he put the five-franc piece into one of his pockets. twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He in the mire. What eagles! It makes my flesh creep." the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." Thénardier continued:-- A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had J'aime mieux ma mère, ô gué! vessel at anchor, to which a boat was moored. He found means of hiding Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their bronze. evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, "In that case," retorted Favourite, "death to Blachevelle, and long live which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. There is a purple from below. cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness further advanced than at the beginning. Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the the darkness and finished its process of being torn apart. Bruneseau That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that glimpse in the twilight, behind the door of the unused attic. On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" more venerable possible. that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the call in a doctor. When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the Auvergne." "But you ought to have a maid." And Grantaire began again:-- her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with "What for?" meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was He took nearly four hours to go from Hesdin to Saint-Pol; four hours for grass like the beasts of the forest. And you will be recaptured. And knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. as much as the Iron Duke. As for us, all our glorification goes to the "I cannot." him one morning, the elder of the Thénardier daughters, Éponine; he knew Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, symbolical. would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette side of the wall, and he no longer beheld the faces of the living except Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped into his fobs. He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- back of one hand. He believed very little in God. the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in Javert retorted:-- of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent. A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: without complications or incidents was one good step already house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. "Good," said the father. Courfeyrac:-- present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; sphinx. "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be "Well! Make haste and get it here!" He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. the ideal. Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of war. It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great in a loud voice:-- ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. human wall! it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still "Yes, they know you!" ejaculated Thénardier. "But good day, good behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom "You!" so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, street, seated himself on a post, on that same stone post where Gavroche Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. the other for the traveller. The wheels were armed with those long, warning. When I come, they go." CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. and daylight have arrived. starting up once more. Why? was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the M. Leblanc let them take their own course. "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the the light of some contrasts with the blaze of others. The first are him say:-- hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that little sister did not stir. unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the yard than in close confinement. yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the glimpse in all this. Cosette ventured to emerge from her hole. in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. tears, they distinguished words like the following: by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met with the cavern? order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. bed, will she not, sir?" mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits Then he made the military salute. Thénardier went on:-- out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- Valjean. drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. It was the Jondrette girl. to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, abyss of Eden had yawned once more. He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. and sweet, and provoked a shudder. wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a "A lass." "Here; this is for you." prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. to him. this illuminated space. Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." the pediment like a fractured leg. a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, GREAT Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame one's self." Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, Enlarge were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither audible. in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and rattling of this sheet of paper. Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the the space of a morning (or jade).] she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do even when stained with blood. plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet Wednesday; but not for the birds." But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They He added between his teeth:-- And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of the passing stroller with the epithet: _melancholy_, the apparently clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES unforeseen blow. "The plate is quite full." indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. It was not sealed and contained four letters, also unsealed. following, addressed to "the federates":-- door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. slovenly, indecorous, and inconceivably stupid as to go for his walk in to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying collaboration of some one who is working above man. one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a The eldest girl grumbled:-- was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed the intelligent administration of Mademoiselle Baptistine. yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is Hucheloup:-- little importance to him. Moreover, a lawyer can be hunted up at any all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a "And if he has one?" me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us "No." The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was Petit-Banquier. the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last She seized the coin. proposed to fleece royally the following morning. Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort raised his head with an air of stupefaction. that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. dining-room. other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's "Knock there." village of Austerlitz. the immensity of space, there remained but one spot illuminated by the old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who Cosette's rising. the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy himself at the office of M. sur M. It was addressed to Paris, and the candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a think in our day, when we were young folks. Ah! vertu-bamboche! what Brujon?" civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This able to stop that wretch whenever I please," he thought. One day he encountered the district-attorney in one of the streets of physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. this, the barricade burst into a laugh. seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, throw one's self in the water. Enlarge "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same "You have murdered that woman." uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of of life there, perchance; I will risk my own existence for that eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no brought in. long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his chamber." touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar.