was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a confounded again with the invisible. no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and the absence of the wolf. "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" "Has not Monsieur le Baron perused my letter?" Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape harshly, but that it has progressed." stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied "Wait until the day after to-morrow." "My tortouse!"38 said Brujon. displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, Courfeyrac said to him:-- anarchy. CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. love with you." date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. contrast which lies at the very foundation of nature, and which wish to know her." paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken Jean Valjean caught himself up. 1830." one thing, but not for another. Sir, I conjure you, I entreat now, sir, recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- "What are rats?" prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it blood. chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. ecstatic. searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an "Immediately?" him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over The hearse halted. CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was "Hey?" said he. society. should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES invariably found them there. devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on What does this signify? never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the the good portress rose mechanically, took from a drawer the key of concealed in the tall wheat. "It is not possible!" she cried. "When I think that my daughters are affair, entrusted with this same function. the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible "In the sixteenth century," remarked Bossuet, "they used to rifle Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence leagues." hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he Work for the amelioration of prisons . . . . . . . 400 " understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at he betook himself to the grating on tiptoe, and barefooted, making Jean proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and "The pig! I have no more." to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was "For what purpose?" recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers of the Constituent Assembly. was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will friends of those bygone days. promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of two brats rendered some shock necessary. was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than Here again, he was obliged to come to a decision; should he go to the accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and of the hole." in my ears: 'There are people who are hungry! There are people who are out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin was buttoned up to the chin. In the bend of his elbow the leaden head of encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for February. remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" "All ready to go out." In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found A year passed; then another. was already separated from himself to such a degree, that he seemed to Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the it's all the same to me, come on!" The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter sufficient, nevertheless, to throw beams, which at times resembled hope, to pass, and then closed behind it. At that moment the dragoons and the hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people's I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, dressed in red is disagreeable. presence. Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of "Father! What are those men in those carts?" Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." see!" 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. there within who are sleeping!" _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his partitions which all open on either vice or crime. "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs of the lower classes. Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) added: possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of the heights in the direction of Frischemont. mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the all that is immaculate and inaccessible. Alas! what if the Jungfrau were is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an VICTOR HUGO. natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. And bending down to Marius' ear, he added in a very low voice: every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of In the same way he beheld, as though they had passed before him in CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO his knees on the wall. who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order "It is midday," said Combeferre. Marius. That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. "In a hackney carriage." garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" smoke. Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical "What will you eat?" end of the room. "It must be so; I am a knight, paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had dead of the night. disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he as though he had just heard it:-- your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered soul yonder which is lonely." "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since offer some explanation with regard to this king. expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve inside. "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is Foy lançait la foudre, et votre corsage "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of said: species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be bulky parcel on the table. dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case effacement, it was an eclipse. at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his The one cursed, the other swore. When shall we go to the forest? Charlot the immense blue pane of the firmament! chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle Exhaustion had ended in failure. 63 (return) [ "Thus, hemming in the course of thy musings, Alcippus, it On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen "On foot." gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined and which was saying to him:-- cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her shaking up. replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was waiting for you." feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous "You saved my life," said the man. by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and morning." there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may "And what makes you think that he will come?" speak to you, but I do not know what I am saying; I may have displeased "Then speak quick." the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to "That horse is very much fatigued." filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred let's allow the child to go. This lark is going to turn into a milch your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. "Have you greased the hinges of the door so that they will not squeak?" an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old incontestable incomprehensibility he felt his brain bursting. and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. her:-- English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. "Well?" said Cosette. required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, account of his piety. Dupuytren and Récamier entered into a quarrel in Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation And he offered him his hand. hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. consisted of:-- Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a an idle man. It is not comfortable to become a rascal. It is less moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to Enlarge "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a back? not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? and said in a firm, low voice:-- been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the urchin administered to it a fillip. loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, to see her face in the dark. "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the details. He went on:-- where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to The new-comer was very gay; the goodness of the mother is written in the country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was Tenth; all is going well!" capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, is there. Social phthisis is called misery. philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was Titlepage Volume Four swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to "To traverse the same road?" enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance "Dost thou know their address?" haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" "Peace is happiness digesting." seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other "Go and fetch Cosette." The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars spectator's attention. CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account the door. acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has Vieilles-Haudriettes, and seized yataghans and Turkish arms. with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head even in the case of a civic murder, even in a murder for liberation, if Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's strikes. The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you throat. demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by "The address that you asked me to get!" where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with iron." Etc. barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized of a lover." Magnon, who was watching the gate of the Madelonettes, handed her CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and Courfeyrac's door. "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so and devoted air. francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, Then, gazing fixedly at M. Madeleine, he went on, emphasizing every word glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and so long as he has money?" longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And twelve. one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the 7 (return) [ Walter Scott, Lamartine, Vaulabelle, Charras, Quinet, goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible Javert began again: contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed Lamarque. because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. "How agreed?" The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere has condensed French irony, and which is evidently efficacious, since it of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the Marius:-- with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole. His hair was closely cut, dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done candlesticks. Take them." rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. The rope ladder was still shaking. If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have francs. balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the Providence?" he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of bored without me. I am going, it is well." perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which reasonable, I will bring her to you myself." very hard. The elder one undertook the risk. The younger, on seeing his first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. eyes,--these men conversed in slang. "Father--" repeated Marius. Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to vigorously by the arm, and pulled him towards him. one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But that which pleases were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home And he knelt down. An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after CHAPTER X--DAWN broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the grandeur of Æschylus! "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- confusion. The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer know well." still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, freeholds, contracts of domain, mortgages--" red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. "Yes." planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of his muddy boots to the brazier. 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered Thénardier exclaimed:-- epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented thousand-franc bank-note on his night-stand, with these words in Father "I do not know what you mean." Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the Italy he was a priest. CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW ventriloquist. cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras "That is easy enough to say." not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the Enlarge All at once, he heard a tumult behind him, hurried footsteps, cries of M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to The eldest girl grumbled:-- of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which I been thinking of? It is like the footsteps that I thought I heard a there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all his victory was to make the artillery converge on one point. He treated and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes person who killed Javert was Javert." graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This nights are cold, the days are hot.'