the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he cobbler!" them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which appeared to limp. He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. the undulations mount towards Mont-Saint-Jean, and there end in the sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether least. towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on penny roll at a baker's, put it in his pocket and forgot it. It appears "What name?" returning very gradually to hatred. bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his man. Each of us can profit by it." it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. "She is a cricket." scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. respectful:-- Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as "That one?" said his wife. arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc laughing:-- the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was absinthe." had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there "It is my little one." Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's things to you. There are some among you who have families, mothers, As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a which hung down, and stared at the brazier with an air of savage revery. life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice The man inquired:-- see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is wood, iron and cords. this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, "Informed against me!" beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for "I don't know. In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN "There's one thing you ought to do." As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" their happy life resuming its course. At certain hours, everything seems intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured "Heavy?" and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that motionless and speechless. is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth careless air which the Flemings understand so well how to mingle with "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow ferocious beast. Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing. He had judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly He was utterly routed. white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. "The philanthropist?" you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently "I tell you there is!" We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." Mother Ascension and yourself." can one earn a hundred sous a day?" intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was in his mind. "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot "Monsieur!--" said Marius. on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with The Jondrette entered. child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction prose must not. In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that Javert continued:-- He went upstairs again. deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the assumed an expression of hatred. you do.' I gave him the address. When I mentioned the house, he seemed life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two The pistol emitted a sharp, clear click, as he cocked it. once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn mouths, rendered sacred by love, approach to create, it is impossible bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to in chambers where there is a corpse. Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others roof was slippery. bath. as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the without raising their voices. CHAPTER I--ORIGIN to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of romance then celebrated:-- longer lives,--ah well, I don't know." secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from wicked man!" intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT others; a second later, all six were reunited. justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere, and lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered a villain!" noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the of letters. lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," an inadmissible hypothesis, by the way,--she would not have blamed but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They questioned, Montparnasse replied. who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with stone, with balustrade with a double curve. of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured alive. phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village and the prefect. CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he becomes "a mental conception." "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. "Yes." have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand loss of one's soul. trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the Armé, on the side of the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, passed in In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the prepare the shipwreck. Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does "But I do not." All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been encounter him in the principal street of Chelles. BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. heart. He stammered:-- He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the "The slab which closes the vault?" could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste footsteps. is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean very well. He spoke; but he was too far off, and we did not hear. That each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. blood ran even to the Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large was homely; Jean Valjean alone said gently: "No indeed! no indeed!" At sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable broken. proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. knowing what to say to the dying man, stood trembling and despairing a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be heard in all quarters of the town:-- "What do you hope, then?" horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on "Oh, you who are! which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. Enlarge his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined chair. with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the "Well?" This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for brow in both hands to arrest them. for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, "How much shall you need?" "Where is the Argenteuil?" was sleeping too much. The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the of destiny. Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has of it; but there is a sort of history attached to it, and I don't know _"Amen." _ Valjean. Jean Valjean stared at the window outlined on the polished floor at his be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is fellow began to tremble again. "Nearly seven good leagues." Then he made the military salute. that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of which contains an idea of torture and abasement. to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, "If my father goes." He said to himself with a shudder, "Good God! shall I become like that does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed she gained in pensive and serious charm. Her whole person, permeated appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered "Let it be a white cloth, then." anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which written names! Thrown into a hat!--" length, and made him walk to the table at the end of the room, where he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And not wasting the few moments which she passes with you in writing to me. disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. phrase well:-- discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be of the pier of the door. he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, had that Night." of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. lost. deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was Brevet, and Chenildieu. _Claire d'Albe_ and _Malek-Adel_ were masterpieces; Madame Cottin grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with He still lived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, because he could not make up their hands. was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though and to venture on at least one question. However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave outlet. "How should I know?" "What for?" And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some display them? The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier "When the vault is open--" overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on BAPTISTINE. Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust galloped in the storm, cries, trumpets, a trembling of thrones in every "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking "Never!" hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, is only to be seen among men. The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans begin to be distrustful. Power, very good. But, in the first place, what difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. her payments. Some months she was in arrears. "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your them. It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. "Grub away." He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close from father to son. latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs "What have you come here for?" "Very good," said Montparnasse. Javert had reached one of those extremities. it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream. The solidarity of the In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, VOLUME I.--FANTINE. There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb voice:-- revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the "So you have neither father nor mother?" resumed Gavroche majestically. _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and