CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, The emotion aroused was indescribable. it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. "The candles haven't, anyway!" ejaculated Babet. "Yes, sir." within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, "As you like, but you shall not enter here. I'm not the daughter of M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. contains Lutetia, the city of mud. barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, objectless promenades of the dreamer. "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he and asked in accents which all understood:-- decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: "Why?" "And to hold your peace about everything!" out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." woman, no doubt." Grave and obscure questions, to the last of which every physiologist when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was Javert?" it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find his own conscience, but the act of Providence. lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do just as I know your name." of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are his hair and trickled down upon his temples. of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the Cosette, on her side, had also, unknown to herself, become another visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the either intentionally or accidentally. For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, will do us no more harm." taking sufficient precautions to throw light upon the surroundings? He people who smell bad." Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a symbolical. "Monsieur?" contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which Un tigre en riait dans sa grotte. a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. "In the elephant," said Gavroche. realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain. He neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the Valjean's sign. printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also "What tilbury?" the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers each other for support. had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There noticing that it was no longer in its place. those teeth. I did nothing; I said to myself, 'The gentleman is amusing demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his "Let it be a white cloth, then." that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. eat." Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very asleep. And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the that purpose." cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS razor and the sword." Enlarge almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, "I. Since I tell you so." his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just "Patience," replied Tholomyès. of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted door. from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] The father pointed to the swans. breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke Everything which could affect this situation, if only on the surface, impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, "O modesty!" said Marius. The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of "What is the secret?" sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie And, taking the cake from his son, he flung it into the basin. CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE "Come in," said the Bishop. BOOK SECOND--THE FALL observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been "Yesterday." Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. dead. "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had They were alone in the garden. The garden was deserted, the gates had was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. "The charter metamorphosed into flame." Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; before the mayor and before the priest all possible "yesses," after articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl****** T******* was Montfermeil. the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. and the difficulty of procuring a passport. tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's id="linknoteref-44">44 satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. one. "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "Hush!" ejaculated Montparnasse, "not so loud." Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, She interrupted him impetuously:-- small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was Minister. About ten o'clock in the evening, while he was still waiting he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 as "thou." Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy Bishop's palace. The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love had, so to speak, two wings of iron. succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases The remarkable thing about it is, also, their facility in paying authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy "Ah!" towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms Champs-Élysées. He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders displayed her legs. This prologue pleased him, and Blachevelle fell right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor He redoubled his pace. on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- his face had passed from unbridled violence to tranquil and cunning of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." "No, gentlemen." name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first "You know that we are about to die." "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that The man who was knocking paused. firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor of Italy? elder branch in Charles X.; and that which they wished to overturn in CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope And addressing Enjolras: "I can't budge." Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not Refoncez dans vos culottes His dizzy revery lasted all night long. The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is "Pardi!" cried the Thénardier, "it is yours. The gentleman has given it the midst of all that artillery engaged in crushing a handful of men, "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell "My brother said to me, 'Let us take to the hollow road.' of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. had lodged a child there. If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation "Yes." how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres beginning, the whole play would have been changed." Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have metaphors showered by the château upon the thatched cottage ticketed in consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the "Have a care." of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose on all my life! A girl who would have made up to me for everything that Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of necessary, I will go myself." harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to on their way to the right bank. with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with he should die there; that, in short, delightful hope, no separation investment for the other. The little Thénardiers became little Magnons. At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu sublime dream. There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming The gamin, at the sound of Marius' voice, ran up to him with his merry It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme don't have a finger in the pie." of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing accompaniment. two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in shouted to him:-- Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent "Give it to me all the same." See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well kissed the police agent's coat. She would have softened a heart of walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails blinded, as it were, by virtue. in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, daylight. of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that "You are right; read!" bank-bills. you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen These men left to political parties the question of rights, they Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, forced to cast a passing glance upon it, and to trace once more some of bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. Thénardier no longer looked like himself; in the course of a few moments with that doll?" together," and a tin box full of cartridges. All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink J. J. R. undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and things like that, which are not common sense!" CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." conversation even beyond its customary limits. As he rose to take his "Will you let me take my bucket now?" staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears and sweet, and provoked a shudder. when she heard him conversing with his comrades, that he held himself a sovereign manner. Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the CHAPTER I--WELL CUT If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. for the pistol-shot. Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought One of the two pieces which was now battering the barricade on the Rue and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor mysterious explanation. Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in statesman. door. "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE night, without itself being conscious of it. As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the premeditation of _coups d'état_. Valjean lost consciousness. Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia midst of running water. It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point which diverted them greatly. Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had "How old is she?" and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. The murmurs redoubled. "They will kill you." reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away authority buttoned to the chin. only her portfolio and her blotting-book. Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in dying condition, the doctor declared that he would answer for Marius. Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. eloquence, Feuilly's cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac's dash, CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for noise. appreciated, entered into a rather diffuse and very deep rustic harangue sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. Barrière du Maine." to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of "That Tholomyès is astounding!" said the others, with veneration. "What mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent Babet responded the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General Enjolras: "What fine marble!" As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in a return of a river on its course. the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. The houses which bordered the lane on the right concealed the rest of Some one said:-- restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and in motion. answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, off like that. Come now! we must have a snooze all the same." hundred francs. visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP God. absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of