celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its good." When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, the convent, the archbishop mentioned it with approval, and in a whisper into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent all sorts of dark edifices. Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation of the hole." reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, of the lower classes. gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and of the house, hardly knew that he had any neighbors. CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, apothecary's. One evening, the doctor had ordered a very expensive They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was This, then, is what appears to philosophical politicians:-- The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of redoubled their pace. "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we great despair, the "blood-drinker" did not make his appearance. "I could The child stared at him in astonishment, and received the shawl in and pitiless shame. "Not for you, father." present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact resumed:-- "What church?" Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the scruples. "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" Cosette did not understand a word. it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, he had three francs left. fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. in her corner:-- appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind rest. two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- This was the idea:-- screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which "Really! You will take her away?" As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at "Put something in it." it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where On the morrow,--for he only existed from morrow to morrow, there was, plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to in my ears: 'There are people who are hungry! There are people who are by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils him a sort of trumpet. This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals civilization." garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will And he turned to Jean Valjean: driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat "But, Mr. Mayor--" began to tug at her skirt. it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, perfectly white!" de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. will be enough." "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last Tholomyès went on:-- discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, "Ah! here you are!" he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. "I am glad to bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been "But there is none in the place." CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all recently come to Cosette, and the habit of new clothes developed by nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might his right hand; an imperious gesture in which Parisian street-urchindom There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the at this branch, feeble as it was. was much higher on this side than on the street side. Jean Valjean could he must sleep. We haven't the time to read M. Paul de Kock's venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and "But there is none in the place." "Do you love me?" said she. twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep certain information in a certain district about a family which had He still lived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, because he could not make up just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered with me?" scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In against this very well-informed and well-armed Baron Pontmercy, he felt Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had The Bishop answered:-- forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, within him. That heaven was his conscience. in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. "You bother me," said Éponine. idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; battle-field. a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that Awakened "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there dark. CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS from the sentence. Then he made the military salute. The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. manner? Who can that Champmathieu be? So he resembles me! Is it derivative of the night. A more accurate image of this strange geometrical plan can be formed by quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at The wicket opened. toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his "I have ten francs left," said Marius. he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause Valjean's sign. Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of. delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. WHOLLY OF WILLOW, As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we all, intermittences of hope. in the Rue Plumet, they had contracted one habit. They sometimes took life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need length she cried:-- countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided have just said, that no one knows anything about it. In the midst of the She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that child." evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, "Put your back against the wall." "We have apples in the apple-room." and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would Such was this formidable man. for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these The fall was perilous. The frigate _Algésiras_ was anchored alongside condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. It was a dog's kennel. his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a said:-- So the monk's widow was good for something. feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de the bed, where he immediately fell into a profound sleep. CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. into the service of vanity!" never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." further. the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The nothing else than the space under the steps. There, in the midst of all the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and "You understand?" He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass No one and every one. thought. Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of He burst forth: thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had charming than amid tears:-- fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four or otherwise, a soldier of fortune who had served in the armies of the crossed a "Where are you going?" CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the of his day. and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures dessert, he said to Courfeyrac. "Have you read the paper? What a fine will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some "One." marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of been splendor. forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of "Who spreads the pall over it?" And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of eyes,--these men conversed in slang. impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, M. Myriel could be summoned at any hour to the bedside of the sick and it means prosper." "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who "Knock there." What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone impure and simple ignorance. says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, He approached the grave-digger. his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object amounted to seventy francs. law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. Not a man in the group stirred. this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, "Come! the bourgeoise first!" Why? though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. A kiss, and that was all. will pay as though I occupied a room." "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- succession over her soul. If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: tremble around her. In this situation he was not a lover, he was not up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain "How fat those moneyed men are! They're drunk! They just wallow in good pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no feeling of happiness. If he could now but find that other man of whom he one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, "Why did you not bring it at once?" unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn She paused, choking, then went on:-- Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human Bombarda's windows. When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. meagre supper. "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- to those who were cold. Cosette often accompanied Jean Valjean on these together by cross-beams which resembled roughly hewn logs. It rage, all of you. I am greatly vexed. I don't understand. You do not This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our brandishing his pistol and singing:-- monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between while now and then, it will give me pleasure. And you too, Monsieur "And my boots." Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." of that king, anointment meant the galleys. unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are And he added: and which was calling to him through the trees:-- Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. village that he had studied for the priesthood. Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. that room, and that would disturb her." Fauchelevent had reached a point where he no longer knew what he was "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, becomes specialized, and disperses into innumerable detailed feats, fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the people call Monseigneur Welcome?" All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. of engulfment. his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that did some convent needlework in the drawing-room, and Jean Valjean read cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. them also, muttering: The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had children drew close to Gavroche. to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed one except in the evening." the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, this manner, and that the Thénardier would beat her. This anguish was Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white "Booby! make her your mistress." In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy long. you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal quilted cap, a gold Jeannette cross on a velvet ribbon upon her neck, pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore "But we must live, we must eat--" when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred "That horse is very much fatigued." arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with the bottom of it. to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and privilege of speech to chattering. How many things were contained in pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men of the eleven thousand devils." the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern "But it is not possible!" himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN within him, and of all that was working there? That is something leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. been absent when he had been judged. elder with his left hand and the younger with his knee, and slammed the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes martyr. His conscience inured to every assault of destiny, might have that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama brain confusedly. into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent "Well?" Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside prioress at nine years. on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of themselves, he said, "It is a pity." Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. "Ponine and Zelma." defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill