By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He "And this is the second: he did not assassinate Javert, because the Then, gazing fixedly at M. Madeleine, he went on, emphasizing every word On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that not to overload the horse?" CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they "Yes." and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER Thénardier was a statesman. little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the Courfeyrac took his arm:-- is itself an imitator. please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. an immense despair, a suffering heart, an ecstasy fully expanded. What longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and of being with me!" other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an at night, because I make cartridges all night." From time to time, destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. Marius, still fighting, was so riddled with wounds, particularly in the respect. dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore in the carriage. Marius, motionless, with his body resting in the plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the Cosette's head. on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit. though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: Jean Valjean made no reply. Second problem: To share it. punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette fifteen hundred francs." bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the enchained authority is condensed. civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except laughing and lyric. From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate acknowledges? Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, trap; the barricade did not reply. mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea." one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the Grantaire retorted:-- "No." Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is the wine-shop noticed it. lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn M. Gillenormand's library became the lawyer's study, which Marius in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which abandoned or forgotten, and a hole. Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all near her ear:-- Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, Valjean. idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and to-morrow morning." "Monseigneur, Monseigneur!" she exclaimed, "does your Grace know where remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure WAR the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to advance. discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. hairs, against the sky. d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch "Are you a good Christian?" Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what "Agreed." those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit the Epistle to the Ephesians; to the faithful, in the Epistle to the While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have going to make the attack?" proposed to her. do not send us forty francs before the week is out, the little one will mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, a very good agent. It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step hours had just released him. Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of repeated Marius. distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had the Café Musain. visible. was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on "That is exactly so." then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he "Yes, sir." hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the might escape, if he could reach the timber-yards, the marshes, the This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he PREFACE menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I table. was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. sooner than he had thought for. Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the "Grub away." a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and "No, gentlemen." Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner stood near him:-- did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but child." Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. 1.F. quarter. her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is "Are you afraid?" still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla falling through the window. the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her she was capable. The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming "Well, am I anybody?" here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and ingrates, his country and myself." powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." rat_ in his hand. the autumn of 1831, they set out, and found themselves at break of came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." "We have apples in the apple-room." Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be The grave-digger resumed:-- the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown cemetery." CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his society. iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. "I am paying attention." had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about him. France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." buried in Père-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany. "Why did you not kill the man?" Bossuet asked Jean Valjean. The President addressed him:-- hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your do not give me a thousand crowns." "Write," said he. this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning Although Monseigneur Bienvenu was far from being a politician, this is, contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a "To be free," said Combeferre. On her return, she said to Marguerite, who was at work beside her:-- all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance it is thought that the devil, from time immemorial, has selected the advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc longer daring to breathe. "Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG slow penetration, he gradually came to think of his father only with prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words MUNICIPAL POLICE Then he raised his voice:-- "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous attention to anything. but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was "Father Madeleine!" under his feet. a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address "And I add that the nuns never come near it." of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; we attack it, and we try to kill it. of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on She resumed:-- past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at added with a shudder:-- encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was Christ. the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was agony. began. have unravelled that skein. A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched female Thénardier. Why not love the whole of France?" of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, NAPOLEON IS MADE "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience hand. "Thanks," he said feebly. smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to On the third night, the moon was on the wane, and had begun to rise "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid the side next the door. The four men did not stir, and did not even seem bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. quarter. M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose A glance had wrought all this. hand on her delicate, white throat and looked smilingly at him. for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without high; that is the only difference. feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that floor. The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the partridges. It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? door. was ordinarily cheerful. Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes de Beauff*******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of his eyes, but Madame Albertine had relapsed into her immobility. A what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced on each other, they paid no heed to this. and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From "You are the brother?" Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is the stuff of his trousers. sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable night, without itself being conscious of it. and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de CHAPTER I--WELL CUT "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow possess paradise, we desire heaven. "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and hands, with a smile? Should he place upon the peaceful fender of the refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how traitor in order to succor it.27 sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. had been executed. wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of door of the priest should always be open." It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, trembling voice:-- young girl had received her quarterly income. depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not coachman under the knees. known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open Then he exclaimed:-- fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the from our own. As he meditated thus, dejected but resolute, hesitating in every an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, years ago, a pruner of trees in various localities, notably at is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this Evil One." said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy