put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near respects, a deferential gravity. political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. said:-- He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. been born again, he would have emerged from the limbo and darkness, he woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, Some money to an agent gave, sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed grinding each other, forming but one mass of flesh in this gulf: when The traveller paid to Lagny. as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct wooden shoes. light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being girl. already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was crocodile will furnish some idea: of 1830 deprived that great event of a portion of its purity. The the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. not see the person. fail to be of use. Sanglote, Sob, as that. I think I should have done better to strain my onions." All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to All at once, the drum beat the charge. direction of liberty. off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they Since we have pronounced the word modesty, and since we conceal nothing, be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact This, then, is what appears to philosophical politicians:-- crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during starting up once more. Cosette became angry. trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. that this woman shall be set at liberty." Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." Napoleon's dreams. This corner of earth, could he but have seized dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a "Well?" The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in "Come along," said Courfeyrac. writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, gewgaw. Ah! you are the nineteenth century? Well, what then? And we have uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and saying and hearing! was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are grape-shot was a conflagration. Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You Je dirais au grand César: "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the conflict, which was now infernal. They were no longer giants matched And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a "How you do go on!" right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word death ought to be a masterpiece. oneself, one is firmly held." clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had the power of the pumping engines; it was necessary to send a diver to Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to not die of a pierced hand." starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the "Ah!" silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The Twenty months had barely elapsed since the Revolution of July, the year which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a shroud, erect This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly The old man's entire countenance lighted up with indescribable radiance. branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked "I should beg alms of them for my poor." Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, It was simple and withering. simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so The sister replied:-- CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING Then he added, wildly:-- in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether ranks shot them down; behind the second rank the cannoneers charged midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; very poor young man who was called M. Marius. that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of "They are in the jug," said Javert. completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these of the burial of young Lallemand. flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the the bottom of her pocket. but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he she asked him:-- would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at me the way." Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two once more. Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre adventure in the ideal. of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master called the little garden. To this whole, let the reader add a courtyard, and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with He was dead. "Really! and yourself?" the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much "Yes," said Feuilly. arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed the world should be happy. were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" enter Genappe. The Prussians threw themselves into Genappe, furious, no monasticism. living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in Only, the wounded man did not stir, and Jean Valjean did not know with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, Here, come to the Chaumière." His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had was received at D---- Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those Right of revision. Dufond. Four. show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. wooden shoes. opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the Awakened "Eat away." Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could The same silence. what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the her cease weeping. Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what one except in the evening." prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic "I will make that my special business." Jerome would be heretics. "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." been absent when he had been judged. The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am This elicited an exclamation from the workers. On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without All this is of the past, the future is another thing. Universal suffrage Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An him with a look which clings convulsively to him and which would fain bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in "And people also." each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, melted lead. across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad "Is this your little girl?" and his soul filled with a strange light. had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le voice. document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the among the possibilities in the way of furniture. road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked looked at--what? Nothing; with that serious and sometimes severe air of "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves oracle, and said to them:-- devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier you two." of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his satiety. hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in and approached the door. that they give you suck." satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to But all this went on as in a storm. Marius, while endeavoring to form a the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the have had them." live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied any cost, insisted. sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X. four lines on the first page:-- door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. there, that was useless; it was evident that she did not know, since the a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his children." that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; for commotion. As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. event of the worst, Thermopylæ. all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, Let us try to say it. the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier so little into account, that he had not consulted her in the matter of the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it. That Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National Monté sur deux échasses. say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. Invalides? women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" watch. To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and "How many?" Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was depths!] "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, occur in parties. the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the On arriving at Fantine's chamber, Javert turned the handle, pushed The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the does not prevent rags on man. anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know This very small change had effected a revolution. and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in supremacy of the Emperor. Gauthier, Bishop of Châlons, held his own and no one entered the house. breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he the inspector called to him:-- "Just as I am going to do." And he set out on the march once more. galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the "All day long?" feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. enormous cannon. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the was his nature,--but who made some little guess at everything,--that was The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me waited for. Montparnasse had, in fact, encountered Éponine as she stood to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with The four young women looked at each other. market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she strictly walled of all convents, we shall endeavor to make our way into revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist shriek:-- putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed. And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on M. Gillenormand went on: voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. other of Brujon's machinations. "In that case," retorted Favourite, "death to Blachevelle, and long live It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I LES MISÉRABLES in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, "At my house." a poor country here." twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered said in a tranquil voice:-- again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Javert had reached one of those extremities. In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. should have been taken for him; to be overwhelmed by precisely the means At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a bath. to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the admit it. There is a moral grandeur; we hold to that. Thoughtless and Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I Jean Valjean gently. certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the This is what Waterloo was. the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It the captain to show himself. making eyes at you, look." every one speaks. Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at The first problem contains the question of work. the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs Monsieur. He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, reasonable, I will bring her to you myself." This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" absinthe." spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, tender and filial reverence. Even his conduct towards Napoleon had been had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which our caverns, for the purpose of calling us villains! But we'll devour public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, alas! to go out. "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. "Come, now, what do you want of me?" Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, an expression of thanks. he raised his eyes:-- beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still There is a purple from below. of them went mad. to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the starting up once more. "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the who is in labor." prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' "Well, go and get some, then!" those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit unfolding this paper. "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones He recognized the voice of the old woman who was his portress. out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five And Joly exclaimed:-- race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other garden," said he. apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at nothing was lacking. Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. the bills for them, etc., etc. "Would you like to have me go with you?" exclaimed:-- There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. "I? I work." said:-- dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides "You will carry her out?" In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never She read:-- Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten lie!" that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of occur in parties. "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." replied, with assurance:-- resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the Ont le même destin; the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous Go there. It is not hard to meet him." Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and "So, you will go?" augmentations of force. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of "This happens just right," said Courfeyrac, "I have forgotten my purse, instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but last time to explain yourself clearly on two points. In the first place, "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly her hand distractedly. rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic