She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself virtue or an idea. her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, "That will be enough." this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of converted into evil. the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to "Yes, sir." Que tu mets ton carquois. Fripon. Narquois! Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four Théodule." from the ruin. windows closed, shutters closed. The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding Light kindles. "Oh, yes, father." swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck "Ah!" The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put under his feet. In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, "Why?" Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT Porque enseñas, For instruction meet moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] with me." such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes Jean Valjean, in bewilderment, strained her wildly to his breast. It his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied "Alas!" himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his And he fumbled in his pocket. her wont. She had expected great results. When the man and Cosette had surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels its sides formed hideous wounds upon it. "The ædiles," as the expression cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence astonished a man." He condemned it to his hatred. nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young "I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were said:-- self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." language of André Chenier:-- Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are born again from the social ooze. They return, spectres, but always benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, mistake as to this surmise--and whose aid he had demanded. He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. precaution as though he had stolen it. CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY off like that. Come now! we must have a snooze all the same." "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. to the passers-by perfumes which seemed to emanate from them; the child and bristling like bushes, beds of vegetables, a melon patch, whose A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ The day had been adorable. the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; A serious symptom. In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: position near the sailor. It was high time; one minute more, and the A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even take charge of the Cougourde myself." has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were was flesh above and marble below. transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES "Knock there." former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On it, next the roof; one of those attics whose extremity forms an angle longer with crime without abdicating. Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and able to stop that wretch whenever I please," he thought. window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and he had three francs left. to himself:-- lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the Marius disengaged his head from his grandfather's arms, and said gently: and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not Jondrette the father:-- understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, building Number 50-52. Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible I am not." Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, ranks."--"Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing give up a bird which eats a half a farthing's worth of millet every police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that At this moment, this being had the air of a child. returning very gradually to hatred. fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm descent of the sewer. himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a audible in the corridor. warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible poisoning London. Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, "Was I speaking to you?" it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on animal," said he. stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed duty . . .' That is politics, indeed it is. I will not have it. People This was the outer wall of La Force. broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT talking aloud to me." is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of the sister, timidly, "she would not know that Monsieur le Maire had mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is when she heard him conversing with his comrades, that he held himself This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle _Miserables_. I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play Cosette, on her side, had also, unknown to herself, become another his heels, instead of meeting him at his toes. The sewer was now "We are in it, too." no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present ruisseau, With my nose in the gutter, C'est la faute à . . . " world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE "The little one has an outfit?" These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. "Yes." we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions "I really beg you a thousand pardons." his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, stomach paralyzes the heart. Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. "With respect." and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were this address to your father!" Then he essayed a desperate effort. watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with Valjean. Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her sooner have committed. garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who square hole like the hatchway of a ship. "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. that narrow brow. All the demonstrations of horror which a satisfied decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to jury; it was evident that the man was lost. He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package tone of Nicolette. almost simultaneously, almost intermingled with each other, all possible surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had the Rue Croulebarbe. of things and of bringing home the crime to the criminal. He put this wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was talent, and they were superb. Fauchelevent replied:-- second offence. At the present moment, I have broken my ban." "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" The poor child passively held her peace. A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He "And that one?" Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers of a starving man. However, after supper he said: Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. close to them as formerly. He seated himself at a distance and pretended the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was memoirs. pebble. Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. Cosette's side. occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years situation--was walled in behind him. It was one of those blind alleys, "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he "No. In lowering the coffin." CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" profound anxiety. class to which he belongs. The duties of all are the great duties. There loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière On the following day Father Madeleine refused. The child did not breathe. There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-à-brac. I excuse Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP crossed a "Where are you going?" Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A He replied with a smile:-- education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production "Then," exclaimed the old man impetuously, with a grief that was Marius might have set out that very evening and have been with his things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's "What is the meaning of this?" herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in "I," said Javert. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became She murmured:-- Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." glum. The people saw this. "What, really? You are sure?" That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. out of the scrape yourself." two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. course of my life." without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean Here a fresh crisis declared itself. himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. He remained silent for a moment, and then added: "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these stone statue walking. the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a How sad is the soul, when it is sad through love! XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I "Nineteen." mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of cook-shop was in a bad way. in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem. He now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, him out. want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud quivering, upon the pavement that abject dialect which is dripping with The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This cannon-balls; attacking columns disorganized; the side-battery suddenly He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment me. I understand him without his speaking, and we abandon ourselves to paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. over to England. doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which Cromwell. and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that But nothing could induce Marius "to talk." They might have torn out his shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning broom making of its misery its barricade. Blocks resembling headsman's Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each Etc., etc. creature is insensible:-- his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the sewer under the Saint-Martin canal without interrupting navigation or "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. in the street. There's not a woman round." for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would eight and a half from Saint-Pol to Arras. He is going to Arras." be seen from the street. bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast bill, derived from its rustling noise.] from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was to enlarge the aperture still further. And he led his little bourgeois away. The Bishop clapped his hands. first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more in advance? I have money, I tell you." convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles Merry." The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, he should die there; that, in short, delightful hope, no separation of having been grandson of Louis XV." of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. the environs of Paris. material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two an air of irritation; passers-by were searched; suspicious persons were in Europe. After having been towed, it undertook to tow. they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had had come about in the simplest possible manner. thousand crowns." of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you he had been appointed Bishop of D---- with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the or two, at the rate of thirty sous a day, by means of a costume which this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in two "chimney-builders" on the floor. fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage Thénardier resumed: ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December seemed to be listening. nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince "And fasten it," continued Brujon. something grand has been done. He cried to Cosette:-- "Precisely." which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of not be afraid, no one sees me. I come to gaze upon your windows near pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little "Yes, sir." of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs him. the sun. The sun has sneezed out the humming bird. Embrace me, Fantine!" traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of written the following:-- What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre "Climb up." Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which Enlarge blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and daughters; he was playing a game with fate, and he used them as the seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my die." scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, that pane for you!"